The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-26
SCARCITY OF HAY.
England and the Rest of Europe
Taking Our Surplus,
FIFTY DOLLARS A TON FOR Hay
Is . Pretty High Figure, But 1t Has
Been Reached Lately in Both Lon
don and Parls-The Yield in this
Section WIN Only Reach Half that
ofFormer seasons-Where the Sup.
ply WIN Come From.

In Esropean countries there IS an
almost universal scarcity Of hay and
fodder, and the result has been the os-
tablishment OF hay export line in this
country, the first cargo having been
shipped, as told in the IETRhLIeEEcsB,
some time ago, Europe can be counted
on to take more than the surplus
product OF Americas timothy fields,
and the consequence will be big rise
in the price OF feed this coming falI,
Aside from this, the hay yield in this
state, western Pennsylvania and east
ern Ohio will not average more than
half the yield Of previous years, A
Wholesale feed man, who knows a flew
lines" about hay, said to an INTELLI'
GENcRR reporter yesterday that there Is
bound 10 be big increase in the price
OF hay this fall, The cause OF the light
crop in this section this year, he said,
lies in the fact that there have been OK.
tensiVe droughts Tor the past two years,
as we'll us multitude OF grasshoppers
to contend with, This year, however,
there are no grssshoppers to speak Of
West Virginia, and this section gener-
ally, hos during years past exported hay
10 Baltimore and other eastern ports,
but none will 60 away this year. On
the other hand, this part OF the country
will have to look to other sections for
Its hay supply. Most OF it will come
from Iowa, Indiana and Michigan.
The farmers arc not philanthropists
by any means. This fact is illustrated
by the general attempt among the
growers OF hay, the country over, to ad-
vance the price OF that article. They
see that almost an entire continent
looks to them for q years supply OF hay,
and they intend taking advantage Of
this 10 put the price up as far as posi-
BILE. 1t would bewell for these farmers
to go little slow, else their dream OF
high prices and big profits will be but a
delusion and snare, Said q we'll in.
formed hay man yesterday: ut won't
do for our farmers to put the prices too
high. as in that case England and the
other nations wanting our hay will
turn to South America or India, where
they can got all they want at reason
BILE prices"
Hay has recently reached enormous
figures in European centers, In May
at Paris the toponotch quotation was
$50. A gentleman from Dorsetshire,
England, now in Washington, Pa, with
herd OF fine English sheep, enroute to
the Worlds Fair, has just received q
letter from his father, who is located on
a farm 100 miles from London, in which
he says that hay ia now selling at $40
and $50 per ton. The freight on hay
from points east OF Chicago to London
and Liverpool is SIG to $l4 per ton, so
it will be seen that hay here to-day Is
actually worth from 500 to $685. This,
however, is thought to be but a temper.
airy condition, as with American hay
now constantly going to England, the
price must necessarily come down to
the American price plus the freight
and reasonable profit.
It is learned that within the past
month small quantity Of hay has
been shipped to eastern ports from the
Short Greek region, presumably for OK.
port, but on account Of the scarcity at
home it is not supposed more will
follow.