Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-03
San Francisco Markets.

Corrected every Wednesday af.
ternoon for the HERALD by Spear,
Meade & Co, Commission Mer-
chants, BIG and 3lS Washingto
street, San Francisco.
In the dull state of affairs now
affecting all branches of trade and
industry on our coast it is well to
study the cause aid see what rem.
edy, ifany there be, for this evil.
So far as the farming interests are
concerned, this dullneas aud long
continued rule of low prices seems
due to ovor-production--there be-
ing in everything but wheat a
greater supply than our demands
can utilize, aud in the advent of o
promised fair crop in all lines of
produce and the carrying over of q
considerable part of last years
yield which will swell the aggre.
gate supply to more than the aver
age yield. there seems little hope
for greatly increased prices. This
will be the more so If no foreign de-
mand is created for our surplus.
While all sections of our State
have suffered in common, the
Southern counties feel it the most.
This is partly attributable to dis
tance from market and high freig hit
charges. But there is another To-
cal cause.-the quality and cleanli-
ness of grains, ETC., which we are
sorry to say Southern producers
grains too great care on this point
cannot be taken. On this question
we would quote from an editorial
in the last Ventura Free Press,
penned by one of it's editors and
meant for the benefit of their read
ers. Such sound common sense
views are worthy of wide circula-
tion: "Farmers do not realize the
Importance of harvesting their
crops neatly and clean. A sack of
barley should contain barley only,
and not mustard stalks, foul seeds
and trash. A good article always
brings more than a poor one, aud
while the poor condition of last
years barley crop is due some mewhat
TO the season, much of it Is to be
attributed to the careless, shIftless,
miserable way of gathering and
threshing the grain" While the
presence of burr clover is consider
ed by many in the country not
ouly no objection but benefit to
barley for feed, the metropolitan
tastes are not so cultivated, and
barley containing this seed rates
low here. II farmers would reaiize
the fuct that though their grain
may be plump and otherwise first.
class, showing OF foreign seed or
straw, or anything but grain, ma
terialiy affects values, they would
exercise care in taking special pains
TO free it from these foreign sub
stances, and thus save cost in the
number of sacks used, in the
weight on which freight is paid,
and gain in the cash receipts for
their crop.
Although We have used barley as
an example, The principle involved
IL equally applicable to corn, rye
and all products. AS already stated
wheat Is the only article which
does not show an over-production
and for whidh there is steady ex-
port trade. Heretofore the South
ern couuties have uot produced II
desirable article, but it is elaine d
the present crop OF Odes a is fu-
aud that rust does not attack IL. If
this be 50 we hope an outlet is Of
fered to avoid past aud present lack
Of profit from farming. But all We
said of barley is doubly true OF
wheat. In this market the best
wheat rates as "milling," the next
"shipping;" and any wheat which,
from its Ozark color, shriveled ap
pearance, or being in any way
mixed with other substances, does
not come up to these standard rates
sells as "chickeu feedu Shippers
will see that extreme caution Is
necessary. We do not sanction
such ratings of grain, and believe
that changes are called for and
should be made. But until they
are made the rules mentioned gov
ern our wheat market.
The produce market continues
very dull, and in the large receipts
of white corn now coming forward,
and for which very limited de-
mand is found, prices show a mark
ell decline.
In making quotations our prices
are to be understood as for "A mer-
chantabie article. Inferior grades
always rule lower.
The only changes to note In
prices are in corn-large yellow in
fair demand at 75c; small yellow,
75@77i; large white, very dull, zoe;
small white, 723@75c.