Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-09-11
THEY ALL WANT WHEAT
MILLERS UNABLE TO GET
ENOUGH OF 1T.
They Are Buying Freely, but Owing to
tho short Crop AFRO Not Able TO Get
Enough to Last Long Condition of Crops
--POtntoos Are scarco.

tho short Crop AFRO Not Able TO Get
Enough to Last Long Condition of Crops
Potatoes Are scarco.
[Chlcago Dispatch.
With the exception of the Northwest,
little rain, ii any, has fallen during the
present week either In the corn or win
tcr-wheat belt. While In one sense Of
the word the drought has been broken.
yet the areas just referred to stand to-
day greatly in need of good, soaking
rains, something that they have not yet
had. Pastures and meadows are In need
of rain. Stubblc fields ought to have 1t
to enable farmers to plow and put the
land in good condition for seeding wheat.
The oat crop is now all thrashed and
secured. Country elevators report the
receipts from farmers as exceedingly
small.
Taking the winter wheat belt as a
whole there has been no time since har-
vest when millers from Texas to Michi-
gan have been as FREQ buyers OF winter
wheat as during the last ten days.
Central Kansas reports that millers
arc buying all the wheat they can get;
that the demand for flour is good and
that they arc pretty well stocked up for
the time being. Potatoes are scarce.
Selling now at S1.50 bushel and will be
shipped in from Utah or Colorado.
Central Missouri reports that millers
are buying all the wheat they can get
hold of. Stocks of old wheat all gone,
and orders for wheat arc coming in from
Iowa and also from Illinois.
In Southern Illinois millers are gener-
ally buying all the wheat that is Offering.
Farmers, however, have not been selling
freely. Millers are generally stocked
up with wheat to keep them running
from sixty to ninety days.
In Central Illinois mills are fairly well
s,'I.rlina with -Uhaat lint fow nf than
have more than ninety days stock
There is steady Southern demand, and
some Ohio and Indiana mills are in the
market for wheat at st. Louis prices.
Southern demand for wheat is an un-
usual thing at this season of the year
Potatoes have not shown any improve
ment since the late rains and the croT
will not be sufficient for home wants.
As rule the millers in Northern Indi
ana at present are all buyers of wheat
So far they have no stocks ahead and
are grinding their daily receipts.
In Southern Indiana millers have beer
buying wheat freely at 81. The stock:
are generally light. There is a good de-
mand from other States both for seed
wheat and for grinding. Millcrs gener
ally have enough on hand to keep then
going for sixty days. Good progress has
been made with plowing the ground and
seeding will soon commence. Potatoes
are practically failure.
In Southern Ohio, most of the mill:
have no stock to amount to anything
can gcJ. Farmers are not selling freely
and will not unless 81 becomes the gen
eral price. Good progress has beer
made in plowing for wheat, but The
ground has been so dry that more rail-
would be beneficial.
In Southern Michigan millers have
been buying considerable wheat within
the last ten days. There has been {
good demand for flour, and many of tn,
mills have sold ahead for month
Mills are not generally heavily stocked
with wheat. The land is dry; neverthe
less farmers have been plowing, and the
prospects point to an increase of acre
age over last season.
All things considered, it has been {
good week for maturing corn, and tn,
prospects are now that within ten day
large proportion of the corn crop VIII
be out of the way of frost. Nebraska
reports that there is yet no corn in tina
State out of the way of frost. Recen
rains have improved the condition o
corn in sections where there were fai
prospects before the rain; but in larg'
portion of the State the damage done Il
the crop was too extensive for rains T.
be of any material benefit.
Taking the State as whole, the pros
poets now point to about 40 to As pc
cent. of last years crop. The loca
price of corn during tho past week wa
40 cents bushel. This price was base,
upon Western markets and local feed
ers. The price has declined to from
to 35 cents, and is getting down to
shipping basis to Eastern markets
There Is about 10 per cent. of old corr
in farmers hands. The potato Gro
will be extremely light, with none t
ship out of the State.
In Southwestern Iowa no corn Is We
out of the way of frost. The recen
rains have had the effect to stop furthe
damage to the crop caused by the DIR
weather. The ears will fill out better
| but IL will not make any moro ears o
any longer ones. The Improvement
more in appearance than anything else
A small percentage of the corn in Cen
| tral Illinois will not be hurt by q ligh
| frost. The remainder of the crop wi
require from fifteen to twenty days
Southern Illinois reports half crop
total failure and farmers arc using neV
corn already for seed.
Reports from North Dakota are tina
wheat that was cut with binders is bein
thrashed. The quality is poor and th
| yield light, averaging six to fftee
| bushels per acre Rains have put th
grounds i'm good condition for plowinG
| Few cases are reported whore the whea
has turned out much more than one-hal
| as much as was estimated during hal
! vest. This Is owing to the shrunken cor
dition of the berry and the heads not b'
ing more than half full The straw wa
heavy, more so than last year, and thi
is the reason why so many are now di
appointed I'm the final outcome.
IL is thought that farmers will be frC
sellers at present prices, and heavy n
ceipts at Duluth and Minneapolis al
looked for in the near futuT
Reports covering stations on the Mi
waukee and st. Paul Road through WI
consin, Minnesota and Dakota say I'll
spring wheat crop has now been secure
In fairly good shape. The quality
fully one and one-half to two grade
lower than last year. An early and frt
movement is looked for.
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