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...hogs about 40%, lambs about 25%; and whereas cotton, though lower in price is compensated by a larger crop, yet the prices for range cattle remain persistently low. Fattened cattle, from the cowbelt have risen some-what in price. But the raisers of range cattle have had no profit since 1921 and most of them are "broke." What they need, it is said, is liberal financing, on easy terms...
...program laid out by the President for the Conference calls for a permanent prevention of emergencies rather than the solution of one existing problem. Already Leland Stanford University, in a review of the last crop year, is crying warning to wheat farmers not to increase their production?that their profit this year is an accident dependent on an unusually good crop in this country and crop failure elsewhere in the world. This is indeed true. The world crop of wheat is 11% less than last year...
...conversational groups. The idea works well for those who are willing and able to pay. But meanwhile a larger body is turned away. They take refuge in the very one-armed chairs from which Memorial Hall should save them. "At cost" at Memorial! Hall is more expensive than "with profit" elsewhere...
Filipino politicos like the dramatic gesture; and if it be a bit strained or ridiculous on the occasion, it is no matter to them. At home, they have found that the open sesame to election and reelection, to political preferment and profit is to declare for Philippine independence above all things else. And if the declaration profits them little before the Secretary of War at Washington, they are not greatly...
Muscle Shoals. Use of the largest part of the hydro-electric power developed for the manufacture of fertilizer, containing not less than 40,000 tons a year of pure nitrogen, to be sold at a profit of not over 8%, with farmer control to keep down the cost of distribution. This is coupled with opposition, on account of the delay involved, to the appointment of a commission to solve the Shoals problem...