Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-05-11
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... GAZETTE OFFICE, !
THURSDAY EVENING, May 10.


The weather for the past week has been fine
and pleasant, and farmers having generally
finished sowing, the market has been rather
better supplied with grain and produce than
last week. On account Of both shippers and
millers being DESTROYS Of obtaining wheat
what loads have come into our city have been
surrounded Immediately on their arrival, by
anxious and determined buyers. and bidding
has been active and generous, many loads
selling for more than the Eastern markets
would possibly justify. Our buyers seem de-
termined to make it an object to the farming
community to bring their grain to this City
instead Of selling at adjoining towns, and II
the highest price, with correct weight and
strict reckoning, has any influence, this OBJ
Ject will surely be accomplished.
Our mills having been built and kept run
ming at . great expense, of course must be sup
piled with wheat. Flour being in good de-
mand and bringing fair price, our mills can
afford to. and do pay more for milling wheat
than the shippers Of other towns possibly can
This also is great inducement to the farmer
to sell his grain ut this point, and In reality
keeps our market well supplied when adjoin-
ing towns are receiving no grain at all.
The demand for Corn being light there Is not
much in. The price being low farmers are
holding on waiting for our starch factory to be
completed and set to running thinking, and
rightly too, that 1t will be in good demand at
. fair price when that Institution begins to
use its two hundred bushels per day.
Oats arc coming in but slowly. Shippers do
not seem to care about handling them at pres
ent. Most all that have been on the street
have been bought for homo consumption. The
prices range about as last week.
The receipts Of Rye and Barley have been
scarcely worth mentioning. What little has
been offered has been bought by the Brewers.
Both Rye and Barley will always find y good
sale at our Brewerics at a higher price than
the market will bear for shipping.
Tho Wool crop Of this section, though small,
is rapidly increasing, and will ind q ready
sale at the highest market price as soon as our
WOODEN Factory Is completed and put in ope-
ration. which will be about the first of next
month. The proprietors are cndeavoring to
secure all the wool in this vicinity In order to
start with good stock and drive the business
to its full extent with success.
Thus all farmers must plainly see that with
our mills consuming the wheat, our Starch
Factory the Corn, our Brewers the Rye and
Barley and our WOODEN Factory the Wool,
that these commodities will always bring a
higher price than in other towns where they
have not these advantages.
Owing to the hardness OF the last winter and
depth of frost, hundreds of bushels of Potatoes
In this vicinity were frozen, which renders
them scarce, consequently they nre In great
demand at any price.
Butter is coming in very freely and rather
inclining downward. @n.@s
The market Is very fairly supplied with
Eggs, the supply being about equal to the
home demand. ..-... ...5s. .s as a7
What Beef Cattle and Hogs are offered for
sole are taken readily by our butchers at fair
price. Most Of the cattle being bought by ship
pers who are looking them up, but few appear
on the street. Sheep and Calves arc in good
demand for home consumption.
The sales of Grass Seeds rather fall short of
last week, but little inquiry being made for
any except Hungarian, which is sown during
next month.
All business has shown q decided improve
ment over last week, and bids fair to increase
rapidly and steadily.
Business on the street yesterday was rather
enlivened by a transaction in which one firm
sold out all their wheat on hand at Is.
We quote Mt Wholesale