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Vol. I/XXXI 
Balanced Production; Farmers and Money 
S URPLUS PRODUCTION.—If this country pro¬ 
duced nothing hut tv heat, think how soon the 
nation would lie bankrupt. Again, suppose that for 
the past 30 years we had grown but half our needs 
ol' it, and the land for the other half had been 
planted with other growths. That is what it would 
have been, because farmers never learn, like busi¬ 
ness, to limit production to the demand, and they 
and that billion was wasted by rotting and burning, 
while the awful surplus was advertised to get all 
that was sold for half the cost of growing it. The 
surplus was a damage to the growers, and the public 
got no benefit. Business did. 
WEALTH FROM THE FARM.—Now change that 
word ••wheat" to wool, flax, hemp and sugar. There 
is a deficit of these, and a surplus of cotton, corn. 
power except to get money into the farmers’ hands 
so lie can lay it out in all lie should have of necessi¬ 
ties and luxuries. When one sells his products or 
his rolling stock cheap, or borrows money to pay his 
taxes, you can look in vain for money from him. 
The financial salvation of all others depends on him. 
THE WOOL DEFICIT.—America should grow all 
its fibers and sugar, and employ its laud in balanced 
“Mary had a little lamb.'’ It wan a pet lamb , and it grew into a slice y no remarkable flint its story ranks among the great English classicn in reputation. Miss 
Mary Columbia, the famed Goddess of Liberty, also had a lamb, but she has gi can it scrub care and indifferent treatment. \<>w the time ban coni' for Mary 
Columbia to make her sheep a pet and give the icool growing industry a fair show. 
would have stuck in all the acres they could get to 
in something, There would have been such a sur¬ 
plus of corn, oats, cotton and things of which wo 
already grow too much that they could not ho given 
away. Then think what substitutes would have been 
put on the public on account of that deficit of wheat, 
what money we would have missed in the sale, how 
much cash would have gone to foreigners, and the 
general demoralization of our buying power. We 
grew a billion too many bushels of corn last year. 
wheat, oats, potatoes and hay. It costs fortunes to 
make up the deficit, while fortunes are lost on 
account of the surplus. The principal part oof all 
new wealth comes from the farms, and the amount 
is scanty. So is (he circulation, because the farmers 
buy little but actual necessities. At present the buy¬ 
ing power of the public depends on the picayunes 
the farmers spend and the taxes disbursed among 
a multitude of officials. That spells incipient bank¬ 
ruptcy. There is no way to increase this buying 
production. There has been more or less antipathy 
about fostering the wool industry, and traitorous 
politicians and greedy clothing men have intensified 
it but every man. woman and child to the remotest 
corner of this land has suffered from the deficit of 
wool and the surplus of stuff grown where it should 
have been. Common sense ought to show anyone 
that. Instead of going clean out of sheep we have 
luing on to a few. hoping Congress and the people 
would some day learn the first principles of business 
