St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-16
SHORT ON HAY.
Farmers Getting Rich ON Account
ofthe ExDort Demand for Hay.

Farmers Getting Rich on Account
ofthe Export Demand for Hay.
NEW YORK, July 15.-The World
says: The farmers throughout the
country have been tumbllng over each
other during the past few months to
get the hay which they have held over
from last season into this and other
cities for export to Europe. The occa-
sionS when American farmers have
been called upon to supply foreign
countries with hay have been so rare
that this year will prove phenomenal
one in the lives of the grangers. The
first news that Europe was short of hay
and that the United States was de-
pended on to relieve her distress reached
here early in May. 1t did not spread
rapidly, and the demand was not sup
piled. American conSulS then began to
inquire at the agricultural department
If the hay crop was short here, or if
there was lack of desire to ship hay
abroad. Foreign legations in this coun-
try also began to receive inquiries con-
corning the forage crops.
When news at last became spread
that Europe wanted hay. 1t spread with
lightning rapidity. 1t was a situation
for which thousands Of willy farmers
had been waiting many years. 1t has
been the custom to send a limited guam
THY of hay to market in the summer
and early fall, and store the rest in the
hope that it would be worth $50 ton.
an increase of 81 to s. over the usual
rates. On several occasions this has
happened. Even in their widest
dreams they never expected to get $50,
and when the news that Europe was
waiting for their surplus stock reached
them their anxiety to supply the de-
mandS can be imagined. Hundreds of
tons of hay from Iowa, Wisconsin and
Eear-by-StateS, as Pennsylvania and
Connecticut. have been pouring into
this and other seaboard cities. Tramp
steamers have been loading at some Of
the Brooklyn wharveS for several
weeks, and many shiploads already
have been landed abroad. Still the cry
comes that
More Is Wanted.
The fact that the first demand was
not made known until several weeks
after the lack of forage throughout
Europe grew pressing created consider
able distress there, and especially in
France. Both in England and France
the price was frequently as high as $50
q ton.
A representative of the big commits
sion house of Williams & Rickerson
says that Judging by the way the Amer
lean farmers are striving to supply the
foreign demand for hay. Europe would
soon have all that she needs.
''All the hay in the MARKET" he said.
lis last years crop. None of this years
hay has come iu yet. The immense
quantities coming here show how THE
farmers have been hanging or to it.
Marketmen who have never before
paid much attention TO hay are buying.
it in this city for SIG to $40 a ton and
sending it abroad. We have been get
$50 ton for it abroad, and the persons
to whom it is consigned pay the freight
which Is about 80 ion. This makes
hay cost them $40 ton. and by the
time the consumers get it the price may
reach the phenome nally high price of
$50.
''rhe cause of the scarcity of the
foreign crop of fodder is said to have
been tile dry weather last year. The
same condition of affairs exists this
year.
Still in this country no scarcity of
forage is threatened. because the yield
this year promises to be big enough tu
supply every demand made upon it"