. Yearbook of agriculture . - doubled, and in some cases more thandoubled. When wheat was selling at $ per bushel, cornat $, cattle and hogs at $16 to $22 per hundred, cotton DIVISION BETWEEN THE FARMERS. THE ELEVATORS, at 30 cents perAND THE RAILROADS OF THE PROCEEDS OF A CAR-LOAD OF CORN SHIPPED FROM SIOUX CITY. CHICAGO. 1913 FARMERSRECEIVED 77% nja 1919 CHIpAGO PRICE ^ 1919 FARMERSRECEIVED 80% pound, theincreasedfreight ratewas not a se-rious amountedto but fewcents relative-ly and was asmall item inthe total with wheatcorncents, at $1,at 48catt
. Yearbook of agriculture . - doubled, and in some cases more thandoubled. When wheat was selling at $ per bushel, cornat $, cattle and hogs at $16 to $22 per hundred, cotton DIVISION BETWEEN THE FARMERS. THE ELEVATORS, at 30 cents perAND THE RAILROADS OF THE PROCEEDS OF A CAR-LOAD OF CORN SHIPPED FROM SIOUX CITY. CHICAGO. 1913 FARMERSRECEIVED 77% nja 1919 CHIpAGO PRICE ^ 1919 FARMERSRECEIVED 80% pound, theincreasedfreight ratewas not a se-rious amountedto but fewcents relative-ly and was asmall item inthe total with wheatcorncents, at $1,at 48cattle 1921 CHICAGO! PRICE ^ 1921 5?AiLROADS(RECEIVED i FARMERSRECEIVED 56% and hogs at$7 to $10 perhundred, cot-ton at 17 to20 cents (allthese beingprimary mar-ket prices, notfarm prices),the additionof even 10cents perbushel or perhundredpounds im-poses a burden grievous to be borne. Aien farm prices areruinously low any addition to the freight charge means addeddistress. At the present time the cost of getting some farmproducts to market is greater than the amount the farmerhimself receives in net return. And the heaviest freight Fig. 5.—Sioux City is only 500 miles from Chicago, yetthe price of corn was so low in the autumn of 1021, andthe freight rate so high, that the farmer in north-western Iowa who shipped corn t
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