The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-12-11
.AaeicnLruaIL REpoRTs.
The Farm Prices of the Various PrOdupts,
oomparisons With othor Years.


oomparisons With othor Years.
WARRINGTON, Dec. l0.-The crop re-
ports Of the Department Of Agriculture
for December GiVes the farm prices Of the
principal crops. The increase in tle no
duct Of corn has REDUCED the average
value Of the crop to 50 cents per bushel.
The average value Of the previous crop in
December was SO cents. The reduction is
largest in the Ohio valley and in the
Southern States. West OF the Mississippi
tho increase OF stock for feeding has cor
rected the tendency to extremely low
prices. The average in Missouri is %
cents, the same as last year. In kansss i
L. "a, instead Of % last year in Iowa "a,
instead Of %; in Nebraska 10. instead oils
It is PS cents ia Dakota, 2 cents lower
than last year. S2in Minnesota, I cent
lower; Illinois, 2S; Indiana, 20; Ohio, SO !
Michigan, Kentucky, IS; Pennsylvania,
40: New York, 6S. Compared with former
Drioss corn values are very low. For the
preceding Aye YaSrs nearly all under aver
age in production, the average farm values
was A 7-1O cents per bushel, and Tor the
preceding ten years ~ 6-l0 cents.
The price Of wheat, though still low, is
considerably above last DeGember's aver
age, which was 65 cents. That Of 1883 was
Oh cents, The present 10 Is 7.l0 cents,
again equal to bali the unprecedented de.
cline indicated last pecshber. For the
ave years past the syerage farm value hss
been 90 cents per bushel and for the pre-.
ceding ten 81 65. Last years farm value
was 50 percent lower than for the tan
years endedin 1879, due mainly, TO 2 ial.el
European production, Sndasmaller foreign
demand for surplus near equal TO 81 third
OF the entire crop.
The range OF state Of prices Is from 81
cents In Nebraska to 81 25 in massachu.
sets. It Is above in the Eastern and
cotton States for home eIoHI wheat. The
prices In Texas, 80 cent?, Is 7 cents ioVsE
thna last December, from the increase in
ths home crop. The value in New York
IA 96, an increase Of II ceats; Pennsyl-
Vsnia 95, an increase OF II cents; Ohio tl,
and inoreSap Of l6 cents; Kentucky 95, an
increaSo OF 10 cents, Michigan 81, an in
crease OF 10 cents; Indiana W, an increase
Of l9 cents; Illinois 81, an increase Of IL
centst Wisconsin 10, an increase ot IL
cents; Iowa 81, an increase OF 70 cents |;
Missouri II, an increase Of 10 cents; Kan
sas IS, an inCresse Of 20 cents; Nebraska
81, an increase Of CentsI Dakota GS, an
inarease OF Is cents. The average for CAL
ilornia is returned at 70 cents, and 81 for
Oregon.
Tho average price of rye Is SO cents, I
cents more than last year, Of barley, SO
cents, anincreASe of cents Of buckwheat,
SO cents, decrease OF csntsi Of potatoes,
As cents, an Increase cents; OF hay, IS 81
per ton in place Of SSl7 last year. The
average price Of oats Is 2S cents, the same
an last December.
The price Of cotton averages s 1900 per
pound OF lint, farm value, which Is mills
lesS than the December price last year.
The farm prices are: Virginia, s 5.l0;
North Carolina, 5 $40; South Carolina,
s $40; Georgia 8 $40; Alabama, s $40;
Mississippi, 3 4.1Oi Louisiana, s $40;
Texas, 81 AskHnsaS, 8 l.loi Tennessee, s.