Excerpt from Benner's Prophecies of Future Ups and Downs in Prices: What Years to Make Money on Pig-Iron, Hogs, Corn, and Provisions To foresee the future intelligently in regard to supply and demand, production and con sumption, is the great want that finance and commerce are to-day struggling and grappling with and striving to solve. The question of prices will always be of great interest to the producer and consumer. The Spirit of the age is tending toward speculation in the products of the Farm, the Mine, and the Factory. All business operations for profit and future contracts are attended with a great deal of risk, and the leading branches of trade demand information on the subject, and that the uncertainties of the future be lessened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.