The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-15
DRAIN AND lREApsruPFs.

THE few wagon loads of corn which came In
to-day were taken before they fairly reached tho
high as s. cents Tor it. This cannot be
artiale for N Wholesale dealers u would
be glad TO sell shelled and sacked at that figure.
The receipts BY rail today were not as heavy rs
usual. The shipments were one car OF corn to
Fort Worth, one 10 Baird and one TO Colorado
City. Prices are firm at quotations.
f0-DAys QUOTATIONS.,
wHEAT-Choice, LOO medium, 95c low grade
DOC; Nicaragus. 20 to SOC.
RyI-Fiim at Go to So
BARLEY-6S TO Coo.
BILLET sEED-65 German millot Sl.25
0ATs-d5 TO 4So for spring; s 0 TO $40 Tor fall;
choice red rust proof b5@6Oc; In ascks, Scents
0oRa-ln shuck, b5c to COc sheed aud sacked
Coo TO CSC.
BRAR--we quote q; mills, l.lCG in store nscks,
100
fLouH- We quite City Mills 10 follows; XXX
2S5; XXXX, s2,65; extra s2.75 Magnolia, t2.75,
Fancy, 60, lt@a5.25; choice, S2.9b@S3 .0o
xxx. s2.75; xxx, 81. So Xxx, $40.
Corn meal, per buBhel, 81 ~.
FEED-Chopped corn, per 100 lbs, " 90; CRUSH
cd corn and cob, per 100 lbs, 81 So crushed corr,
and barley, per 100 lbs, 81 rs; corn BRAN per IL
lbs, Toe
prairie, baled, dark, s6d7; bright sl2; bright
FREQ on board, car slO ,oJ2 dark, q tos.
CoTToN sEED-Firm ut l3hc, per bushel.
western correspondent of the Now York
Journal of Commerce, writes as follows Far
mers have had a splendid winter for feeding
stock Corn has gone into actual consumption
nj a much larger ratio than usual. II Is only
the shiitless farmer who sends ms corn 10
market IN the natural state. Illinois, Iowa and
Nebraska farmers are feeding ME great bulk
of their corn crop to hogs and cattle this winter.
There Is not the usual accumulation OF corn this
winter along the lines of any OF our great rail
roads In the west Kansas may be an exception,
for II has been difficult 70 se' cars IN mat state
been so high and the desire to realize at once
upon II has been one reason why so little corn
this winter has been held back, Iowa and Ill.
nois farmers are still buying their corn In many
sections Of these states from Missouri. Kansas,
and Nebraska. Very little grain Is moving al
interior points. Farmers were never more de.
termined TO hold until spring thoir reserves oil
wheat than at the present, We are ins. enter
wheat crop. Let us review the situation, The
crop was sown generally late. Made slow
growth during the fail. Hessian fly fed upon II
for some time, Has been bare all winter Where
seen at present looks bad; Those who have OK.
amined the roots report that they are alive AT
present we have considerable snow on the
ground east Of Missouri, but west of the river
Tho wheat has been bare, We must now with
patience wait for at least thirty days before re-
liable opinion can be expressed pro or con as to
final results. Even south OF tho ohio wheat has
not yet begun TO-. grow, and we have NO
indications Of an early -, spring"
Increase we shall. have the present season IN
the spring wheat area is 10 como from Dakota,
Nebraska and Iowa farmers are both fairly
"disgusted' with repeated failures OF their
spring wheat crops. and the lands which for.
mcrly were devoted to wheat raising arc every
year being more or less put down into grass and
putinto corn. After having very carefully fol.
lowed both the spring and winter wheat crops
OF 1881 and 1882. eau sec no rason TO change
the opinions have 80 often expressed with re.
gard to the yield. ! have always mentioned
the position that the winter wheat crop was
full one, and final estimates come fully up Il
those which were made at threshng. On the
other hand l have stated that the spring whea
crop was largely oyercs,imatod. Rec mt In
quiries upon that point FULLY sustain this opn
Ion. And many 20 IN far as 10 say that there l,
not not enough good milling wheat In Mirne
eota to put the mills on full time without i'm
porting wheat We shall enter the spring viii
much larger area of land prepared for seed
Ing than III the spring Of 1882 The ground vii
be- In better order also.