Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-18
MERCIAL

rago last Wednesday fine car load az
Berkshire Hogs. They sold for 81. 20.
Mr.. ). Combes,of Hurricane. sold, on
Wednesday last, to Mr.. Hugh A. Moore.
OF this city, IA Hogs that averaged 3s5
pounds each. Mr.. Moore paid the high
price OF SAIL per hundred for them.
The receipts at this point have for the
past week been as follows:
Tuesday, 26S, with Chicago Sc and
l()c lower. e.s Ae
wednesday was the big day Of the
week, the receipts being 635, and to
make the matter bad, Chicago came in
l5c and zoe lower. The consequence
was that many farmers went home dis
appointed as to the price received for
their Hogs.
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Thursday. with Chicago Sc and 10c
higher and buyers feeling little more
like buying, not porker put in an APP
pearance.
Friday the market opened up fair and
l2S Hogs were received, with very little
difference in prices, Chicago coming in
weak at Thursdays prices and shade
lower.
Saturday opened up with cold and
stormy weather, and being the last day
OF the week buyers don't like feeding
over Sunday the receipts were small,
only 50, and with Chicago coming in
still weak. the buyers seemed to think
the receipts were large enough.
Monday the receipts were 800 with
Chicago steady on light grades. but SC
off on heavy. In summing up the whole
week, we can notsay but that it has been
a very unfavorable one for both farmer
and buyer.
The receipts and shipments of Hogs
at this point the past week have been
fair, and with good market in Chi
cago. profitable weeks work might
have been done. Our buyers with con-
siderable grit have been bucking against
a poor market for, some time, thinking
that the market must surely touch rock
bottom before long; but their hopes
have not been realized. The receipts
in Chicago continue heavy, although
reports from Ills. and Indiana say that
farmers are holding their Hogs in ex-
pectation of a better market. If such
Is the case, there must be large num-
Der of Hogs yet to go forward. and with
these prospects we expect to see the
market go lower 1t is thought that
two-thirds of the Hogs throughout this
section have already gone to market.
On looking over the field, we have come
to the conclusion that with Corn at SO
cents in Chicago, Hogs are bringing a
good price.
The Grain Market
Mr.. Jacob Wenzel, of Liberty, raised
over 800 bushels of fine white Russian
Wheat this season. He is selling it in
this market for 60 cts. per bushel
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Mr.. w. p. Richardson, q solid farmer
south of Lancaster, sold in town Sat
nrday, fine load of white Oats, the
oad, 80 sacks, weighing out S45 bushels
-35 pounds to the bushel. This, we
think, will be hard to beat in this or
any other state.
Cash No. 2 Wheat sold in Chicago
to-day at the lowest plice in eighteen
years. In January and February, 1866,
it sold at 20 cts, per busheI, and to-day
at 20 cts.
dnd- So Forth
James O'Hern, the horse buyer, ship
ped to Chicago last Thursday car
load of fine horses.
Saturday. Mccoy Bros, of Beetown,
shipped a car load of Stag to Platte
vile. 1t will be resmelted at that place.
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From the Milwaukee Sentinel we clip
The following item of common sense:
1.-The farmers are foolish for com
of hard times now" said a
granger from Rantoul, the other day.
IL don't believe there eyer was time
when farmers We're getting a better
average price for all they produce than
1T present. We can get more pounds
Of sugar or most anything in the store
Tor bushel of wheat now than years
ago, when the price was up to 81 and
over" II remember" said the gen.
Lleman addressed, ''when wheat was
81 per bushel and sheetingS so cents per
yard. Now wheat is worth from IS to
70 cents, and sheeting can be bought
1T cents per yard This is an advant-
age to the farmer. The only thing
worth mentioning that is low now is
wheat. Cattle, cheese, butter and other
Iarm produce bring handsome prices"
S. M. Crawford, of GAINESVILLE, ia
formed the editor of the Calumet County
News that the present low price of
wheat is not without precedent. He
says that when he lived on farm in
Brothertown, in 1857, wheat was worth
,nly As cents, and very little demand
Tor it at that figure. Groceries were
high, sugar that now sells for cents
costing 16 cents. Times were hard
then.
Our Market Reports are carefully corrected
every week and are as nearly reliable as we can
make them.
SHIPMENTS.
Dec 1915 cars Hogs, 2 cars Cattle.
Dec. I'LL cars Hogs, car Horses.
Dec. 1913 cars Hogs, car Oats.
Dec. 13-t car Oats.
Dec. 15--3 cars Hogs
Dec. 1913 cars Hogs, cars Cattle. car Sheep.
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