The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-06-03
From Waboskavg County..11ast Years
Wheat CrOp--Part OF 1t Fed TO Hogs.
Editor Anti MOnopolist

From yvabashavy County..I.ast Years
/. wheat Crop Part OF il Fed to Hogs.
Editor Anti Monopolist
Wheat operators throughout the coun-
try seem counting on continued low
prices, based on the idea that large
crop was raised last year in this State,
and but spell part Of it has been mar
keted. The fact certainly is, that the
crop Of Minnesota last year was much
oyerestimated. Another matter seems
to beoyerlooked; Last fall, when wheat
was worth IS cents per bushel, the gene
raj cry was. FARMERS, sell your wheat
before the price declines further. This
cry was instigated, lin my opinion by
the spectators, to get large part OF the
crop at low prices, and then bull the mar
ket; but wheat was not sold to any great
extent, because the price was below the
cost of production. Sensible men do not
procure or produce property, and then
sell it at loss, unless forced to it. Many
Of our farmers are financially able to hold
till the price becomes remuneratlve.
Others did not sell because taeir credit.
; ors did not compel them to. Sensible
men whose. customers are the farmers,
know the farmers ruin is their ruin also,
and have not enforced collections. a
The mater especially overlooked is
that wheat for feed was worth more thar
, the market price. With pork at cents
: it was worth more to fatten hogs. 1t VA:
: worth more to feed to cattle and horses
! A large pd,f Of the last crop has gone ~
That wdu Two months ago . neighbol
!. rave me sack and little money toibu,
Z at the mill some feed orhis COW. [ wonl.
! mot buy bacause the prize Was too high
& Sl.65 per hundred for iced, appsfent'!!
: tcround corn and oats. i then went TO
! dealers in the village, Who would sell n
! II cheaper and who presented oiacts An
6gures snd a convincing argument. show
II ing he could not afford toEoseh cheaper
fNow if ground corn and 64ts,s into whic
El,mnch trash and dirt may be smugglet
e-l is worth Sl.65 per hundred for feed VIII
r. is wheat, the richest Of all the cereal
% WORTH Without answering this que
G ton I viii give my opinion, that WIT
T. IDork ct cents, wheat IS worth near
5 per bushel to fatten hogs.
r o. Men who last autumn, when wheat VI
20 worth IS cents, urged the farmers to leA'
IN other work and haul wheat to market !
r that pricc, lest it should fall, may thin
IN the wheat is still back, bat they can re
OF assured that if the farmers believed the
&c predictions respecting prices, this whe
~, will not come forward to giut the ma
ul kets OF the world The farmers are =
'ss quite foolish enough to sell or ship whe
a. for export wheni it can be used more pr
'eI fitably otherwise; nor are they .prepar'
g blindly to follow newspaper ADVICE Q
1m even agricultural papers, when they Dc
en internal evidence Of the editors lack
Cd knowledge. They are tec much given
!. accept the kadership e soft.handed 6
e lvy. with more CAB or y reAd'sr pen e
re f6emselves - other matters but nothl
'id n sterl q jct(aiity IN sco1Pd TIN
re en their cfdpI fhe fedlt Of esys u IA
nm ma nights Of .care. without fairT
Are Enumeration.
J. To anxious speculators tIno are @
are ING the marksk and waiting for
MI senornous' last years. crop. would
nte ! large part has gone into other chann'
- Another large part you VII never zee
set It Is vorth $l.00 ! bushel here Besi
naI the crop Ms not = "sner1noss y
~ al.
Y PLArvnv. June !, 1873.
ne TN house aDa I'm d Thomas II
po1 LEY, Eve nilss Shove Minnsiska, y
hat Esiznek 81 Ight1 - - light q
w ilxk III. oae 49, 80 Killed 81
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