Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-07-29
Grain and Grain Market.

called to the condition of grain, espe-
cially wheat brought to our Lake Shore
markets. Our Wisconsin wheat is in
danger oflosing something of its hither-
to good reputation in Eastern markets
from want ofproper attention in clean.
ing it at home. Every pecuniary con
sideration would certainly induce atten.
ton to this matter by our agriculture
community. AS an illustration Of the
advantages of having grain properly
cleaned and fitted for market, we quot,
from the notices of sales in the New
York market, under date Of July 18th
as follows:-One hundred and twenty
four thousand nine hundred bushels O.
Chicago Spring at &C and II 2 for un
sound, and So and 81 IL for good to
prime; twenty-seYen hundred bushels
white Southern at $1.40 to $l.43. Corn
on the same day was quoted at so fol
prime, 80 for Western yellow, IS and
90 for round yellow; making twenty
four cents more per bushel tor good corn
than prime Chicago Spring wheat.
The reader will also notice that the
best white wheat brought seventy-sev
en- cents more per bushel than unsound
Chicago Spring wheat, and nearly dou-
BILE the price of prime Chicago wheat
| The wheat denominated unsound il
mainly ascribable to its imperfect sspa
ration from foul substances. Wheat i'm
properly cleaned, almost invariably be
comes heated when stored in ware hou-
SEES or put on board vessels. The Buf
falo advertiser of last week saws the
quantity of heated grain nowin that mar
ket sndangers the health of the city
That paper says .s. sl
"Some measures should be taken BY
the board Of health to put stop to tn,
exceedingly offensive smell occas;onet
by the drying and ventilation Of no
grain in the region of the wharves
Much OF the grain, corn especially, nov
arriving, comes in heated condition
The consignees spread it out to cool
and from it comes the most horribl,
stenches conceivable. 81 The damp ali
and lake breeze of the evening spread
it all over the west side of the town, ano
such smell cannot fail to be very initi
rious to health" 6
An intelligent grain dealer write
from Buffalo to this place, Something
must be, done to induce farmers to exer
else more care in cleaning their wheat
or it will not sell in this Market From
a personal observation of quantity o
wheat now in one of the ware houses i,
this place, there certainly is evidence o
remissness in separating the impurities
which go far to lessen its market value
We do not suppose that the remark, al
to the want Of care in cleaning grain fo
market, is any more applicable to sucl
as finds a market at this point
than to that which goes to any othe
wheat market on the Lake. Nor is thi,
inattention to grain cleaning applicable
to all farmers; but the truth is, thos,
who exercise proper caution, ultimatel,
suffer on account Of those who take les,
pains. The character of our marketa
BILE grain is made up OF aggregates, ant
not from individual farmers. 1t doubt
less sometimes happens that wager
load of poorly cleaned grain, sells al
well in the market as we'll cleaned
load, and this may have induced tn,
seller of the well cleaned load to believ,
that any great care in the matter is no
profitable. '-'.''''. ="
Kenosha County and the adjoining
counties have in past years produced
good wheat; this Is emphatically grain
growing region of country. The best
wheat growing sections of the Union
are sometimes destined to failures, and
so with this. Our agricultural interests
as a whole, are affected either favorably
or adversely, as the individuals who
make up the agricultural community are
Ivigilant in their endeayors to raise the
standard Of our products.