The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-06
GRAIN AND FLOUR

IHE receipts of grain and flour today
show q falling Oft from yesterday in wheat
and oats. There were fair receipts OF corn.
Prices OF all grains are firm and the demand
was active. Nicaragua wheat took u sud
den rise anu will now bring from wagons Il
dollar to a dollar fifteen. There is good
inquiry for this wheat for seeding PURPOSES
and it is thought there will he q still fur
ther advance. Hay is plentiful on the mar
ket and prices remain steady. There
IS small demand for baled
from the Western counties, but
the local trade is not heavy. Bran has adj
Yanced at the mills TO dollar twenty
to q dollar twenty-five, and the
supply IS not equal TO the demand.
The market, however, is well supplied from
abroad.
D., WnEAT--sl cool 25, as per grade; Nicaragua,
II % TO 70 on street, 40 from store
CoRN-Old IN ear, 75GS0c: new, IN eur, G0H65c
shclled corn 90c
OATs-In bulk, iG6jOc
kYE-scarce. We quote per bushel, 75@Sj.
BArLEy--Scarce. Good demand. SIS n gpr.
BRAE-We quote q! mills 81 2J&l p; in store
FLour-we quote City Mills as follows: XXX.
So 25i ANXX, $ or extra "a q.
imported: NX per cwt % 80; XXX, IS G4
S&NX So 30, choice family, 81 10 GncE' "a no.
CoESMEAL--ter bushol, IL TO-
In Indiana The wheat crop Of 1870 was
placed Mt 1921 900 bushels, That Of 1880 at
lS4UUO00 bushels, and that of 1881 at 10
iJ5,OUQ bushels, the falling OIL this year be-
ing attribGtabletO the severe drOnth Of laet
summer, The corn CROP of 1879 was ll5,
$4,000 bushels, that Of 1880 5000 900
bushels, ana that Of 1881, 75,050OG0 bushels.
In 1870 Iowa contained 1886 467' acres Of
improved land, 252l, 79G Of wood land, and
3620, 6jS OF other unmproved land The
number of farms was ll6,292 of which 81. o.
0ll contained from 20 to 80 acres; Al, 81 from
90 to 100; 80, liz, from 100 to 500 32i from
800 to LOCO, and 50 over LOCO. The cash
value OF these farms was SG92, 1852. AL: of
farming machinery and implements, 500
2U9,562 wages paid during the wear. So
3iIa1Si estimated value of all farm produc.
tons, Sll436S,4ll; value of orchard pro-
ducts 81 90, lG9; OF garden products, &2!l,-
9G} of forest products, 81, 20046S.
Timothy, or Herds grass, is the most
valuable of our grasses. II received its
name Of Timothy from Timothy Hanson,
who, is said to have cultivated il extern
syely, and to have introduced it into Caro-
lima, 1t received the name of Herds grass
from man OF that name, who, according
to Jared Elliot, found it growing wild in 4
swamp in piscataQua, New iiampshire
more than 4 century and half ago, and
began to cultivate it, Its cultivation was
introduced into England from Virginia by
Peter Wynche about the year 1860.
The flax crop of 1879 and 1880 yielded on
an average throughout northern Iowa, ten
bushels per acre. The present wear much
OF the Hay was sown late, and, owing to tho
continued ial! rains, did not ripen and was
not cut, but lost in the fields. These rains,
commencing in September and continuing
about one hundred days, made it SO THU
what was cut and Stacked could not be
thrashcd, and what was cut down rottcd in
the LIST OF December, the farmers co,nnenrsd
thrashing and rushed their lax into the
market, which was high, and glutted if.
iorcing The price down. The crop is nov
about all marketed, and the average Weld
VIII be less than three bushels per acre of
the whole amount SOwn.
Ia Chicago February wheat opened at
~ and closed at l.275, a cent and an
eighth above yesterday. Corn opened nj
62l and closed at 625, throe-fourths of a
cent advance since last evenings close. "