The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-09-10
THEY ALL WANT, WHEAT
MILLERS UNABLE TO GET
ENOUGH OF 1T.
They Are Buying Freely, but Owing tn
the short Crop Are Not Able Ia Get
Enough to Last Long Condition OF crops
Potatoes Are scarce.
tChicago dispatch.


present week either in the corn or win
ter-wheat belt. While in one sense Of
the word the drought has been broken,
yet the areas just referred TO stand to-
day greatly i'm 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 IL
10 enable farmers 10 pillow 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 free buyers Of winter
wheat as during the last ten days.
Central Kansas reports that miIlers
are buying all the wheat they can get:
that the demand for flour is good aud
that they are pretty well stocked up for
the time being. Potatoes are scarce.
Selling now at Sl.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 are 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 we'll
supplied with wheat, but few of them
: have more than ninety DAYS stock
There Is steady Southern demand. and
some Ohio and Indiana mills are in the
market for wheat at 81. Louis prices.
Southern demand for wheat is an I'M
usual thing at this season Of the year
Potatoes have not shown any improve
ment since the late rains and the crop
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 been
buying wheat freely at 81. The stocks
are generally light. There is good de-
mand from other States both for seed
wheat and for grinding. Millers gener-
ally have enough on hand TO keep them
going for sixty days. Good progress has
been made with blowing the ground and
seeding will soon commence. Potatoes
are practically failure.
In Southern Ohio, most of the mills
have no stock to amount TO anything:
hence they are buying all the wheat they
can get. Farmers are not selling freely,
and will not unless 81 becomes the gem
eral price. Good progress has been
made in blowing for wheat. but the
ground has been SO dry that more rain
would be beneficial
In Southern Michigan millers have
been buying considerable wheat within
the last ten days. There has been a
good demand for -four. and many Of the
mills have sold ahead for month.
Mills are not generally heavily stocked
with wheat. The land is dry: neverthc-
less farmers have been blowing. and the
prospects point TO an increase of acre
age over last season.
All things considered. il has been a
good week for maturing corn, and the
prospects are now that within ten days
a large proportion Of the corn crop will
be out Of the way of frost. Nebraska
reports that there is yet no corn in that
State out of the way of frost Recent
rains have improved the condition of
corn in sections where there were fair
prospects before the rain: but in large
portion of the State the damage done TO
the crop was too extensive for rains TO
be OF any material benefit.
Taking the State as a whole the pros
poets now point 10 about 40 TO 45 per
cent. of last years crop. The local
price Of corn during the past week was
40 cents buShel. This price was based
upon Western markets and local feed
crs. The price has declined TO from 80
TO 80 cents. and is getting down TO
shipping basis TO Eastern markets.
There is about 10 per cent. of old corn
in farmers hands. The potato crop
will be extremely light, with none to
ship out of the State.
In Southwestern Iowa no corn is yet
out Of the way of frost The recent
rains have had the effect 10 stop further
damage To the crop caused by the dry
weather. The ears will fill out better.
but IL will not make any more ears or
any longer ones. The Improvement is
more in appearance than anything else.
small percentage OF the corn in Cen
tral Illinois will not be hurt by light
frost. The remainder of the crop will
require from fifteen 10 twenty days.
Southern Illinois reports half a crop 10
total failure and farmers are using new
corn already for seed.
Reports from North Dakota are that
wheat that was cut with binders is being
thrashcd. The quality is poor and the
yield light, averaging six 10 fifteen
bushels per acre Rains have put the
grounds in good condition for blowing.
Few cases are reported where the wheat
has turned out much more than onc-half
as much as was estimated during har-
vest. This is owing to the shrunkcn con-
dition OF the berry and the heads not be-
ing more than half full. The straw was
heavy. more so than last year and this
is the reason why SO many are now dis
appointed in the final outcome.
1t is thought That farmers will be free
sellers at present prices. and heavy re-
ceipts at Duluth and Minneapolis are
looked for in the near future.
Reports covering stations on the MIL
waukee and st. Paul Road through Wis
consin. Minnesota and Dakota say the
spring wheat crop has now been secured
in fairly good shape The quality is
fully one and onc-half To two grades
lower than last year. An early aud free
movement is looked for.
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