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The Agricultural Epitomist,

Spencer, Indiana.

Prosperous Farmers

In the Wheat Belt

We have heard that some people in the East have heard that some "experts" in the Northwest have heard that some farmers' wheat crops this year are 'short crops." compared with last year.

H. V. Jones, An Expert

as

in Minneapolis, who is always so conservative that he looks through the telescope with his eyes at the big end, and comes the nearest of anyone who breathes Northwestern ozone, to being a pessimist, declares that the wheat crop of 1904 in Minnesota and the two Dakotas amounts to only

128,000,000 Bushels

or 15,000,000 less than in 1903. Let us therefore accept that estimate as the worst possible showing. Now look at the market: "No. 2 Northern" (which is the standard grade of the market always) is selling in Minneapolis at $1.14 to $1.18 a bushel, while even

Rejected Wheat Is Worth $1.00

And has sold this year as high as $1.12 per bushel.

Assume, therefore, the worst possible phase of the situation. Imagine every bushel of this year's crop to be "rejected" grade, and the crop is still worth $1.00 a bushel, or a total of $128,000,000. Now, assume (to be ridiculously "conservative") that every bushel last year graded "No. 2 Northern;" refer to last year's market at this time and observe that it was worth only 80 cts. a bushel. Last year's crop was 15,000,000 bus. larger than this year's and amounted to 143,000,000 bushels, which at 80 cents, made the crop worth only $114,000,000. The crop is still almost entirely Held By the Farmers and they get the benefit of the big prices. Therefore this year's "poor crop" brings farmers of Minnesota and Dakotas over

Thirteen Million Dollars More

than did last year's "good crop." In tabulated form:

ever.

1904 Crop
1903 Crop

128,000,000 bushels worth
143,000,000 bushels worth

Excess of Value to farmers Wheat in 1904 over 1903

$128,000,000
114,400,000

$ 13,600,000

At times, this fall, the price ranged 10c to 12c a bushel higher than the above quotations. This is based, remember, upon the most pessimistic report issued by any authority whatThe bove refers to wheat only. Everybody concedes that all other crops, hay, corn, vegetables, everything else- -are away ahead of the average. In many cases they rank as "bumper crops." These are indisputable facts. They need no argument behind them to prove the great prosperity of the farmers in the field covered by The Northwestern Agriculturist. It is one of the best fields in America for the advertiser this fall, and as The

Northwestern Agriculturist

circulation-75,000 every week is the largest of any farm weekly in the west, its importance to the astute advertiser is easily recognized. Its territory extends from Michigan to Montana and from Canada to Kansas. It is the best advertising medium in the Northwest. The advertising rate is 35 cents per agate line, 500 lines at 30 cents, 1,000 lines at 28 cents. Ask for sample copy and further information.

P. V. COLLINS PUBLISHING COMPANY

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

511-525 Seventh St. South

Or 914 Schiller Building, Chicago

Every Advertiser

wants to reach the Southern Farmer whose prosperity has eclipsed that of any other section.

The Southern Cultivator

has been reaching the best of these men and their families for over 62 years and, now that their purchasing power is greater than ever, its influence is more powerful and wide-spread.

It has a guaranteed circulation of 40,000 and is growing. Don't delay, catch the fall trade. Atlanta, Georgia.

The Southern Cultivator,

Our client, the Racine Hatcher Company, of your
city, has authorized us to enter an order for 3000 lines
of space to be used in the Wisconsin Agriculturist during
the coming fall and winter.

This is the largest amount of space this adver-
tiser has ever used in any single publication. In going
over the records of the Racine Hatcher Company they show
the result of an expenditure of less than $250 in your
medium last season from which they actually sold over
$3000 worth of incubators and brooders. They further
show that they made sales to a little over four out of
every ten inquiries, which is considered a very high per-
centage. We congratulate you on such a fine showing.

Very truly yours,

F.A.S.-7

LONG-CRITCHFIELD CORPORATION