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The Duty On Hay

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
October
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Vnder the McKinley law the farmers were protected ogaimst Cajiadiaii hay, sec. 277, four dollars per ton. The "Vttlson bill as reported and oviiónally possed by fclie liouse, Beet. 199, put the tluty at $2 per ton. senate changed the house, sect. 199, (rom $2 per tou to üü per cent ad valofem. This 20 per rent ad va lo rem means 20 cents on each dollar on the value of the hay :il the polnt in Canada [rom which it i Bhlpped. To Ilústrate, if hay is pun-liascd at Prescott, Canada. at Little Cornpton, or at Chatham, or al GodricE, for $6 per ton, the (luty is $1.20, and thus the hay costa the buyer in 'the Dnlted States .Ï.L'f). plaa frcight. This ilmws jnst exactly the working of the new or WUeon law. iAst year large quantities of hay were sold in Oakla.nd county for shipment at from $9 to $10.50 per ton. Now there is little or no ghipping mark-et, and hippers of hay find it impossible 4 o buy hay in Oakland connty find compete witli Canadian sliipments oither in coat Michigan markets or eastern citiee. Oanadian hay is belng dnmped into Boston and New York City hy the hnndreds of car !oaJs per day. The Canadian land npon whlch tlirii' hay is raised will not se'l for much more tlian halt' the value of land in the States, and t;ie Canadian ia m t paya !i;s help not to exceed two thirds the gwice the same grade of ínrni help OOBts rn the States. Now yon farmers liave it flat. and wlial are you goinig to do about it? Yon farmers are in fehe same lio.H on every article of produce you have to fell in competition with CSnada. Thát is the fact. Take it lo bed and tliiul; it over. The Canadian farmrr and farm hand are laughing wit li joy - the American farmer i.s toi

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Ann Arbor Courier