Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-09-11
sM0bss TME WHEAT.

-,a-ss-,,, -aa0bs, TME WHEAT.
Wheat is the staple product of
this region. The farmer has now
gathered and garnered his crop, and
is debating with himself and his
friends as to the course he will pur-
sue. The QUESTION presents itself |
whether he will hold back his pro.
duct and await the development of
higher prices, or whether he can dis
pose Of his crop at once to a a,greater
advantage.
3 We have the figures before US
which should be sufficient to settle
the question at once. For the first
time since 1881, the farmer is the
master of the situation, if he emily
80 wills. When the land is blsssed
with abundance, when home con-
sumption is supplied and the foreign
market is satisfied, the farmers sur
plus is a. the mercy of the specula-
tor; but when the opposite condi-
tions are true, when the demand is
not met with sufficient supply, the
consumer must submit to the terms
of the producer. This latter condi-
ton is the auspicious state in which
the farmer finds himself to-day. If
he will hold his wheat at 81 at the
station he will get his price, and by
selling half as much as he did last
year he will receive more money for
his sales. Our wheat crop this
year Is short. The winter wheat
is not much more than a half crop,
and the spring wheat is only two
thirds of a crop. The following
figures taken recently from the
most thorough and reliable sources,
explain the case most clearly:
The government report for July,
which does not include the damage
to spring wheas Gt having taken
place to large extent since the re-
port was prepared) places tie entire
yield of the United States for 1885
at 357,000,000 bushels. In 1884
the government report placed tbs
yield at 512, 100000 with 10000,
900 on hand from the crop of 1888
Add these amounts together and We
will learn the total amount of wheat
that this country has had during
the last two years:
From old or Jp, at the beginning of the
, harvest OF 1881; '.'............. 4o'oOo, ,oo
Total yield Of 1854 .512, 900
Total yield of 1855 (deducting nothing
= for spring wheat damage). .357 ,G00, 90
Tota! for two years. 900. .0oo, 90
Deduct from this total of 900,
100000 the amount required fo
I home consumption and for seed
: namely, 700,000,000 for two years
s and the 1872, 100000 exported las
4 year, and we have remaining for es
A port and for carrying over but n
100000.
For home consumption, 1881. ...... 800, 900 0(
L, For seed, 1854. 10000, ,Ot
Exported. d........................ .132 ,UUOo
\, For home consumption, 1885. ..... 800 ,000, o.
For seed, 1885. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000 ,0t
Total Observation-Disclosures, 49,, 900, o.
Total amount OF wheat for 1884 and
1855 .......................9 .900, ,O00, ,O
e Consumption seed and export. ..... .S32, 600. .O
n For export AMI to carry over, 1855 II, 600, o.
h What does this last result meal
!. 1t shows the number of bushe
: which we have for export. La
& year, according to the figures fur
r ished above, l32,OOO,OOO bushe
II were exported and we had 10000
y. 900 bushels more to carry in stot
- for the next year, making a tot
" Of l72,000,000 bushels remain,
o. after home consumption and SCI
n. had been deducted. This year v
n- have only 100000 bushels, lit
A. more than one-third Of last yea,
quantity, and altogether, witho1
70 having any surplus, we can On
RI have for export about ons-half t
Id quantity actually sent to forei!
q. countries last year. But will t
80 foreign trade require as much tt
year as in 1854, may be aske
'is Statistics and general reports she
y. that no country in the world has
ed full average crop, while many cou
in tries complain of an actual scarcit
=. The extraordinarily low prices {
=, tained for wheat last year has co
he PEELED large producers in be
he France and England to use th'
lat lands for more profitable purpos
no The product is diminished in be
' of those countries not alone by
" reduced acreage employed, but 8
Sc ious blight1 and unusual drou:
he have afflicted the crops, accordi
ere to authentic reports, to an exte
- 81 of from thirty to forty per ce
Reports, as telegraphed FRI
VI Russia, show shortage of nea
ms l00,000,000 bushels. What th
1r. will become of our paltry 1900
900 bushels which will be left
rio exportl Why, the foreign dema
VIZ this year will not fall short Of %
Is 600, 900 bushels, if reliable repo
re- can be taken for aught.
ion OF course the buyers and spe
ia. lators will bring up the fact T.
49,, 40,000,O00 bushels were left O.
" last year as a surplus. They Y
ous bring this in as a surface argum
tch to catch the farmer unawares. /
inc let the farmer understand that t
Of last years surplus is taken in cal
lation in the figures quoted in t
DO article, and that with surplus 6
Ing oil we have shown that there ,
Eho be deficiency for export this y
nan of anywhere between 100, ,00O,(
..r and l50,000,000 bushels. The
tention Of the farmers of this