"the Farmer Is of More Consequence Thaf the Farm, and Should Be First Improved:

Net proceeds, 5 pe r c e n t . . industries are located outside of the; Labor large cities, as the Carnegie works at Homestead, near Pittsburgh, Pa., and the Pullman car works at; T H E S T A T E O F M I C H I G A N . Pullman, near Chicago, 111., and I Value of farms..;.; $. $499,103,1 hence do not come within the clasV a l u e f a r m implements.'... 19,419,360 sification forcities. All of these con| V a I u e d r a u g h t anima,> siderations tend to the conclusion that the statistics as reported and E D I T O R I A L O B L I Q U I T Y .