The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-06-23
- & AZ
Neat HnSbandFl

From the wisconsin Farmer fer June .-- t..
In the April No. Of the Wis. FARMER no.
tice CORES ondent recommends sowing wheat
with oats. Your paper Is looked upon oy many
readers as standard Of authority upon the suo'
iects to which its columns are deYo-
ted: and therefore desire to call your attention
to your Correspondents remarks, that you may
support them, If they are entitled to support
by the arguments which are 10 establish the
correctness Of his Recommendations; or, ii erro-
neous, to point out to your readers the damag-
In advice which he gives. At least six out Of
everyfen. loads of oats that are brought INTO
market in southern Wisconsin contain slight
mixture of wheat
If YOU will look at the printed circulars OF.
the Chicago and other Boards Of Trade, you
will notice alloats having in them a mixture
of any other grain, are to be graded No :. thus
your correspondent, who prides himself on his
agricultural skill would receive in the Chicago
market, at the present writing, but 6l@6l3 for
his oats having in them an admixture OF wheat
while his more judicious neghbor, sending clean
and unmixed oats to the same market could
realize 65a66 with quicker sales and better
feeling. Hence the question arises, Whethei
these several Boards of Trade find, in the main
a difference of to ) cents a busbel in the bona
fde value between clean oats and those having
some other description Of grainiu them; or are
they govereigned. bynere arbiuariness and cap
rice? But these associations cannot be govern
ed by arbitariness or caprice, for the momen'
they depart from standard Of integrity and
honor in. their transactions, their influence AND
the force of their rules and decisions becoEes no
more than ropes OF sand,
Now we will take another view of the case
and we shall see that no single buyer no ASSOC
citation of buyers or Board of Trade, can do any
thing to govern these matters except to give
sanction to established fact, and uniformity to
what must of necessity be, in the main, the us.
age of business. For Instance, the Chicago,
land the same remark applies to other places
ia free Market and any individual who
chooses to buy can buy what he chooses and
where lie chooses In all these commercial
places are TO be found men with means and
ability to operate in grain, and if oats, having
some other description of grain in them were
WORTH will not say but as much as
pure oats, buyers would soon neglect No. / oats
and buy only No 3 which they could readily
get at 4 to cts bushel below tie price OF No /
Competition would soon advance tie plce OF
No. 2 oats to the price Of No ], ana the distinc
ton would be obHterated The decision of the
Board Of Trade would be as impolent as the
Popes Bull against the comet
Farmers coming to market with wheat having
oats in it, usually claim that their oat bins have
bursted, or that by soIe hocus poc1es they got
mixed on the barn floor. If it is oats they brin5
with wheat in it, the bins have taken II reverse
action, and spilled the wheat into the oats. In
deed, you must conclude their barns are contn
ually oscilating from side to side, aad never
standing within forty-fve degrees OF the per
pendioular. But if we come at the facts Of the
case / apprehend, ip some cases, IL will be found
shat the chess box of the tanning mill has been
oscilIating instead ofthe barn, but that, in most
cases, mixtures of grain due to siovenly
farming. If g the enemy lad sOwn tares whine
the husbandman slept" there might be some
justification offered but, unfortunately for the
credit Of majority of Wisconsin farmers, they
have such excuse, for they have sown them
themselves
with the writer in the Importance Of keeping eye
cry description Of produce free rorl any mix
ture with a different variety L description of
produce. For the want of ar observance of
this rule, many thousands of dollars are annu>
ally wasted in this State alone.
Nothing is more common than TO witness a
load Of potatoes brought to market mixed red
aud white II the farmers who bring these po,
tstoes to market, mixed in this manner, were to
liant the different varieties in separate places,
the red potatoes would bring as much per bush
ell as could be realized for the red and white mix
ed, but for the white potatoes they could get in
all the leading markets 10 tolls cents a bushel
more than could be obtained for the red or red
and white mixed
Itmight not prove damaging to the general
credit or material interests of Wisconsin farmers
if they were even to take step further
and only plantsu varieties as the Jersey PeaC h
Blows, Prince Albert. or Mercer potatoes,
which bring 20 to % cents 6ushel more than
any Of the common varieties. But believe I
need to adduee no arguments 10 prove the dam.
aging effects to he agricultural interests of the
State resulting from general mixture of grains
and other products
If your Jouanal, having wide circulation and
influence throughout the State, can. by argument
or remonstrance, induce more tidy system of
agriculture, it will have done great service to
the people of Wisconsin. NJ
E---r -~-o- So ...
GOld-Gambling,
The following important bill has passed both
Houses of Congress, and viii doubtless be