Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-12-04
stanton Markets.

STAUNToN. VA, December 3 1889.
The offerings of wheat are fairly kept up in
| small lots. but prices are declining. In quot
ing, we always name the price for good mer-
charitable wheat, because the inferior from
any cause has no fixed standard of value.
Farmers in the main are easily approached
with a suggestion, and when one is offered for
their own good. they ought to try. though their
experience which for the time being has failed
to guide them, commends the suggestion.
When experience is supported by the observa-
ton of outsiders 1t is entitled to that much
mora in behalf of the good management it
pleads to en- force. Every farmer knows full
well the value of good graiu-fan, and If
large majority of the samples that are present
ed by which the crop is to be sold are fair ones
then this Indispensable implement has no
place on many farms in Augusta county. They
must know that the weight which the impuri-
lies, AS they come from the threshing machine.
add to the bulk, is heavily discounted in the
price. 1t is always economy and insures the
best price to clean wheat and all grain and
seeds as perfectly as 1t is possible to do We
know the truth Of what is here written, be-
cause we have seen 1t tested. To this there
should be Ia addition a pride about the mat
ter. We should as soon think of dispensing
with a corn-shellar az a wheat-fan, for the
latter, apart from its service in preparing
wheat for the mill and to SOW. Is required to
prepare corn designed for wholesome bread.
Farmers. clean your wheat. The crop of this
year needs 1t somewhat more than is generally
the case. The fan accompanies double good
work-it cleans, and, If damp. assists rapidly
the dying process, and the money saved in
cleaning fifteen hundred bushels of wheat will
buy superior one. When properly cared for 1t
will last and do good work for at least twenty
five years. No miller, who wishes to maintain
the repetition of his brands and grades of flour.
can afford to grind impure and wet wheat
therefore, whea he has to do this work, the
farmer pays heavily for 1t in the reduced value
of uncleaned wheat.
In enforcing the practical value of the econ
omy mentioned above, we will illustrate 1t
by an occurrence which happened recently.
A farmer had a carload Of wheat to send to his
merchant miller. He cleaned 1t all as he
thought well through his fan, the four hun
bred bushels being in sacks. Tho miller in
spscted every sack and it was all the same lot
of wheat. Ten sacks were set asideas not COM
ing up to the sample. These ten sacks were
accidently overlooked as the process of clean
ing was going on. For the three hundred and
eighty bushels he received the top of the mar
sacks, accdentIy placed with the clean wheat,
there was reduction OF five cents on the
bushel.
Returning TO take q view at the state of the
markets. the remarks of several weeks past as
to their condition both in our own and foreign
countries will apply now. Bradstreets, that
excellent authority when an expended view Is
desired. In the last issue has very full com.
pilation Of the situation the world over. Fol-
lowing are its conclusions, that are worth re-
aiming as we Jog along through the winter. "a
Most of the well known European writers on
this topic have seen fit to regard wheat from
the point of view of the bull, and have had a
good deal to expainin consequences for several
mo tbs past. They finally appear to agree that |
later in the crop year. say In the spring months
1t will be found that Germany and France will |
have to buy foreign wheat with some freedom |
aud Russia's shortage will have had time to
STOW itself.
Recent reports although contradictory. men
ton probable larger requirements of foreign |
wheat by the United Kinedom this year than |
usual. We are told, therefore, thai next spring ,
a foreign demand for our wheat is not unlikely
to make IT'S appearance, which. should it tend
to expand our now probable total annual ex-
ports (say s. 600 900 hUshes) to l2),0OO00O bus
hels. would undoubtedly do nearly all that our
more conservative bu Is on wheat may reason
ably expect
Our market. in sympathy with all Others is
sluggish, as rs cents was the highest paid to-
day. Some offered of inferior grades was re
fused at less than these figures.
Hay is inactive. and very little good timothy
offering.
We havs no changes to note in wholesale
grocery lines.
Country butter takes a slight advance,
Dressed pork Is offered in abundance, We
quote at 81 50 per hundred.
Poultry, live and dressed, is plentiful at the
quotations OF last week.
The quotations ara wholesale, no: r teat,l