Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-12-04
Waiting for q Rise.

IT is the practice Of some farmers who
have the means TO do 80, 70 hold ON TO
their crops of grain and other produce II
at the time they are gathered the market
price of any particular article is much
below what Il has been In former years
In some cases money is made by this prao-
tice, but In the great majority Of instances
we believe there Ia a loss. This loss does
not always occur from the article depre-
clating In value, but from other causes
There are few farmers In the West who
have the requisites for keeping their pro
duce 30 as to insure IL against waste. Their
granaries cannot keep wheat as securely
as the elevators In our large cities. Much
grain Is lost on our farms every year by
becoming heated or by getting wet
About most farm buildings there are sew
eral hundred rats and mice which require
from fifty cents TO a dollars worth Of grain
per day for their support.
Again, 10 insure against accidental fires
costs considerable money, and insurance
In the country cannot be so easily or
cheaply effected as In the city. A ware.
house man in a large city can take out
what Is called an open policy; and by 80
doing can be putting Ia and taking out OF
his building all the time; while the farmer
may be Obliged 10 procure an insurance
for six months or year on grain, which
he will find IL to his interest to dispose OF
in few days.
We all know that great speculations
are made every year. and that splendid
fortunes are acquired by holding produce
for rise. Sometimes these are the re-
suits of purely accidental causes, as the
springing up Of foreign or domestic wars
and In these instances the farmer would
have as good chance TO make by the
misfortunes of others, as the professional
speculator does. But, as we said before
these are purely accidental causes, and sue
cess in these instances Is simply the result
of luck. AS to the other causes OF the
| fluctuations in the market price of pro
duce, as those depending on the stringency
in the supply of currency, the city dealer
has much better opportunities of forming
correct opinions than the farmer has. Ht
Is well posted up in all "the tricks Of the
trade" and is by education much better
acquainted with the laws that govern the
supply and demand than the producer Is
There are local causes of change In the
produce market, that every farmer car
lake advantage Of. IT he, hy chance oi
good management, has raised superior
crop of an article that has generally failed
in his neighborhood, ho will know that il
is to his advantage not to send his surplus
supply away, where II will come In com
petition with that which is produced II
parts of the country where good crop
ar. the rule and not the exception. III
will keep his crop at home, save his freight
and "make the margin" which II costs 4
bring produce TO supply the communit.
where he lives. He will sell to his neigh
bors who are among "the shorts" Thos
| Oh Ia n,Nna h.N hoxg rnA
good crops of potatoes or apples this yeal
will find 1t to their advantage TO look 70
a home market for these articles, and en-
afford to wait TIL their neighbors hay
eaten up their small supply.
As a rule when there has been a sma
crop of any article the previous year, I'll
farmer will find 1t To his advantage to e
of his crop as soon as possible and to rus
il into the market On this account tn
grain raiser In Missouri and Southern Ill
nois always has great advantage owe
the farmer of Wisconsin and Minnesot
when plentiful harvest follows seaso
of scarcity. SO, too tho northern graf
producer whose crop ie necessarily hal
vested late, will in the years of plenty ol
dinarlly find an advantage in holding bac
his supplies till the market has ceased {
be glutted, provided he has the requisit
buildings for storing IL.
Those farmers who speak with regret a
having sold their crops on pSrticula
year, for less than they could have realize
for them aherward, can find consolation
In the condition of those who sold thei
spring wheat early in the fall for 81 80 in
stead Of keeping II for three monlhs, an
then only getting $40 for It, They ca
see, too, the folly of the Wisconsin hoI
Taisers, who refused 90 cents for their hoI
last fall, and now are compelled To sc
them for is cenls.--IfdiIio Farmer.