Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-04
This Falls Prices.

This Falls Prices.
Dakota has g good crop to show for
her seasons farming. The question
now is whether she will be able to get
A good price for it.
The corn crop is all right. 1t will all
be needed at home, and in Southern
Dakota, where corn, and not wheat, is
the staple, the farmers are feeling in
the best Of humor over the outlook.
Cattle and hog raising are getting to
be the leading. industries of every we'll
to-do farmer, and there is always a
good deal of money in corn when fed
10 your own stock.
Flax, the next principal crop of this
section, and a good crop in other por-
tions of the Territory, also promises to
command good prices.
If the 24,OOo,OO0 bushels of wheat
raised this year in Dakota will bring
fair prices, the farmers of this Terrific
ry will be fortunate indeed.
The present situation Of the market
as indicated in the commercial columns
of the Chicago daily newspaper, could
hardly be called encouraging. Wheat
is less than sc cents in Chicago, andthe
elevators are filled with last years
stock not yet disposed of.
But. the crop statiStician comes to the
aid Of the farmer with the figures OF
last years crop and this, and deduces
the conclusion that unless the world
doesn't eat as much bread this year as
it did last, the price Of wheat must
show a decided rise this fall.
The total crop Of the United States
for 1885 is estimated at 325,000,0O BUSH
els. a shortage Of about 2%0O,0O0,0O0
bushels as compared with last year.
The total average crop fer five years
was 462,O0O,OOO bushels, and the short
age of this year as compared with this
average is 137,OOO,OOO bushels.
The stock Of wheat In the United
States east of the Rockies, and atloat
for West Britain and Continental Eu-
rope, on August 3, 1885, was ~5S,552,O0O
bushels, which is 21,5OO,OOO bushels
more than the stock reported on Aug.
d, 1884. But this difference cuts but a
small figure in comparison with the
great shortage in this years crop.
The competition with India, where
labor is as cheap and poorly paid as
money is dear, and where the present
crop shows an increase over last year
might be felt a good deal more than it
will be, but for the shortage Of the
American crop.
When the farmers of the United
States are engaged principally in feed
ing American artisans. merchants, and
citizens of all consuming classes, they
are more certain of a good price for
wheat. With but little to export this
year, it is believed that an era of fair
prices is at hand.
1t is very plain that the odds SO far
as wheat raising are concerned are al
together on the side of the Dakota far
mer, when he can get as many bushels
Of grain from an acre of land repre-
senting acapital invested of only about
$50 as the Ohio farmer raises on land
he could sell for 500, and come west
to grow up with a newer country.
The letter "R" at the head OF all pre-
scriptions is derived from the Latin
Recipe, the imperative means stake.
The little dart over the tail of the r is
the symbol Of Jove, the Latin god Of
Jupiter, and invests the writer with
his authority--by the power Of Jupiter
therefore the sign properly translated
reads thus: "By Jupiter you take this"
Elk.
Aberdeen Republican: The doctor
who waited on the lady at Watertown
who produced the quartet of blooming
Infants has reported the matter to Gov
ernor Pierce, and asks official recogni-
ton of the prolific event; but the exc
eutive, like the United States attorneys
before the recent grand jury at Fargo,
excuses himself on the ground that
Ehere is no statute covering the case.
It is believed, however, that he regards
it as a dangerous precedent, and not to
ne encouraged, as it would be burden
some to families Of small means, and,
If attributable to the climate, calcula-
led to retard migration to the terrific
~.
We clip from the Sioux City Journal
The following Special:
HURON, Aug. 24.-The charter forthe
Duluth, Huron and Denver railway,
was received here to-day. The pro-
posed line enters Dakota at Big Stone
fity and rims in a southwestern 6irpc-