Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-19
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PoRK.-Last season, pork bore an ex-
cellent price. Our farmers have taken
up with the opinion, that beca',se prices
on most products of their labor have adj
yanced-therefor the price of pork
must be over what it was last year
The conclusion is erroneous. The
price of any product one year, IS sure
TO influence the supply of the next year
Thus, pork was high in 1852; in 1853
all hands go to work to raise pork, and
thereby create an over SUI ply. The
rule is the same in respect TO every 9TH
er commodity of the farmer, and it al
ways will be the rule, until farmers
study the principles of supply ane de-
mand better than they do. The rule al
so teaches that whatever is cheap this
year may be dear next. In the matter
of pork, the season has been favorable
and farmers should remember that it ha:
required less labor and expense to pro-
duce more pork this year han last, and
of course, they will make more money
at the same or even lower price thar
was made in any former year. The
highest ruling price is now about $500
per hundred, and from the prices cur
rent in ST. Louis, Milwaukee and New
York, farmers can scarcely hope for any
advance over that rate.
WHEAT AND FLouR.-The crop was
exceeding abundant in Wisconsin, and
below an average in the older wheat
growing States. Wheat and flour bear
excellent prices everywhere. The only
reason why they are lower in the mines
than MARY other places, is in the distance
to ally Railroad depot. Nora is the
nearest point 10 which deliveries can be
made for the eastern market. BY another
year there will certainly be depot some
twenty miles nearer, and then our pro-
duce market will be so much the better,
The upper river market is the best for
Grant County at present, and all the
neighborhoods west of Grant River are
delivering their wheat and -four TO Cass-
vile or Wyalusing for early spring ship
ment. The day is not far distant when
those shipping ports will do a heavy
produce transportation business over
the central Railroad, but they will only
DO kind Of river marketing till that
line is completed between Chicago and
Dunlieth.
CoRN AND Oars These are pro-
duets that farmers can always do well
enough in by feeding them to stocks
1t therefore matters little about their
prices. So long as the great upper
country demand for stock (Which will
be dogs lifetime at lesst,) corn and
oats will bear high prices. When far
mers cease TO believe the present high
value of stock is only temporary, they
will go to raising cattle and horses ex-
tensively and corn and oats to feed them.
So it is clear, the prices upon these
kinds of grain will henceforth be in pro-
portion TO the price of Stock, for as the
one rates so will the other.
There is an upward tendency in the
price of almost everything. The rise is
gradual however, yet too fast for health.
The day Of fictitious values has not yet
arrived in the mines. Our lands have
not yet reached over their real value,
and spectators touch them only with a
light hand. The supply Of first quality
farm lands, well watered, near mills and
in settled neighborhoods, seems to be ex-
haustless everywhere, at prices varying
from $500 TO $500. per acre.