The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-22
HAY CROP AND HAY TRADE.

There is scarcely a location where
a press could not be vantageously To-
Gated. Even in Utah, Colorodo and
other territories, we frequently find the
price of hay beyond its value in East
cTn markets. Indeed there is su3h a
steady demand for hay west of the
States, that in no part Of the country
have orr patrons proved more success
full. Texas. Arkansas, Tennessee and
Kentucky have a ready market at the
South for all their surplus, at a much
better margin than they can realize on
any other product while the Western
States have enough to do to supply the
lumber and lake trade, and contrib
ute their share to the mining regions of
Pennsylvania, and eastern markets.
Georgia, North Carolina and South Car
DINA have more than enough to do to
take care of themselves, but we are
pleased to add that they draw much
less from abroad than formerly, and are
steady increasing their amount of grass
land. Virginia, West Virginia and
MARYLAND must also enlarge their mead
ows, as the Middle States and Canada
have appearantly enough to do to take
care of themselves and contribute the
deficiency in the Eastern States We
might add that the price hay commands
in the mining and lumber country on
the Pacific coast. makes its movement
golden when put mp in suitable presses
for economical transportation, instead
of being bundled with the rudely con-
structed machines built by Californians
from recollections of the old fashions ed
presses used in the Eastern States dur,
ing their boyhOod days.
Why should bay sell for double,
even triple, the price in some part of al
most every Western State that it viii
command in any other section of the
same State and no more distant from
market? Why should our Southern
cities want hay at such enormous prices,
when Such States as Illinois, Missouri,
Kentucky and Tennessee have more
than supply 1t Is simply the want
Of facilities and inclination TO forward 1t
in other words, want of presses and
energy to take advan tage Of market
which, although permanent and grow
ing, is foolishly supposed to be Temporal
ry. If corn or wheat should advance
five dollars per ton above the level in
any market in the country, thousands of
merchants would detect it in an instant
even if a thousand miles distant and
profit by it. Yet here we have a differ
enee of sometimes twenty dollars in
price Of hay but few hundred miles, or
less, apart, and no one seems aware
of it. These are not exceptional in
stances, nor exceptional times, but 6
repetition of what has been for years
past, and will be for years to come, IN
less merchants and farmers can be
brought to understand that hay has a
cash value, and can be transported as
easily and cheaply as grain, and taught
to market their crop, instead of allow
ing hay to be forwarded to their neigh
bors from remote sections and pass their
very doors. and that few hundred dol
lars invested in machinery for handling
hay will earn them more money than
their $4,000 elevators for handling
grain, and with less capital and risk.
There are thousands of tons of surplus
hay, annually, in every State in t he
West that wonld find ready market
far or near, and at a good round pro fit
but that will never be moved in conse.
quenoe of want of interest and infer.
nation