Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-31

Good in uality, but Not ms Abundant
rs Could lie.

The seasons good crops win be we'll
rounded out in this section with more
| than an average crop of hay. II would
have been an abundant crop had some
| OF the rains with which the summer
was blessed como a few months earlier
AS It Is. the dry, cold weather OF the
! early spring prevented the grass from
| getting a vigorous start carly in the
season, so that the yicll Is not 80 pien-
tiful as It ulght have been. The
| quality, however, IS excellent, and while
the crop is not heavy one II Is better
than that OF last year, 80 that on the
whole the result Is very satiafuctory.
This appears to be the outcome go far
as prairie hay IS concerned according
TO the best information 20 be obtained.
johnson grass, which received more
OF the benefit of the summer rains,
made a good average crop, and inlet
better than an average crop.
Prairie hay, which constitutes the
bulk OF that In market hna been SELL
ing at from 50 10 $3.50 per ton.
The loctl market has been supplied
80 far this season principally by the
farmers OF this immediate vicinity, who
bring IN the prairie grass loose by the
hundreds OF wagon loads. Sold thus Il
does not often command mucn more
than SO per ton. Later on in the sea-
son the baled hny VIII bring a better
price, and last year sold as high as IS
and $3.50 a ton.
Last year the crop was short in this
vicinity ana counidcreble quantities
were shipped 81 FROM the Indian Terri
tory, but Il was not OF good quality
and the result IS that II is not very
popular now.
There Is no regular market except for
baled Lay. Tie Business OF shipping II
out OF this section has become one Of
considerable Importance. Part OF It
tfV 1ss 81. fHn a In
districts OF the Panhandle country,
where the crop IS not rs good as here,
and some Of II goes wc.t On the Texas
and Pacific. aud 1t even iToe5 as FAR
west and northwest as Colorado and
New Mexico, supplying a large proper
ton OF the rroSender used IN the min
ing regions.
shipments have also been made 70
Galveston and New orleans for ex-
port, and 1t 10 said this Will become
an important outlet In She near future,
though this trade is only just begin
ming 10 be Of any consequence. There
are some interesting points about the
local traffic. 1t Is said that some ~ TIC
dealers who buy by the ton insist on
having the bales as light as possible,
sometimes Insisting on having at least
thirty to the ton. and II II comes 10
them In heavier bales they viii, 1t 81
said, want 10 make a discount in the
price ON that account, This causes
considerable trouble and expense 20
these who ship hHy from up the coun-
try, for Il Us difficult to get enough
light bales ~ car TO make It pay on
account of the bulklnegs OF the stun.
Tho weight worry frequently falls hciUW
the minimum OF 1900 pounds allowed
in box carr, and the shipper has TO
pay the difference, that is pay for
1900 pounds, the minimum weight ale
lowed, Just MS II he had the full
weight. But when this particular
deulor sells the hay to his town Gus
toners he treats the matter Of weight
very differently, for he sells by The
bale, and generally claims that the
weight "a close on to hundred
pounds. THUS II IS easy 70 be seen That
IN The course OF a seasons speculation
"a large amount OF profit can he made
ON the margin between the allowance
OF the casy-going shipper and the I'M
suHpoctiug town customer holh CT
whom are pretty well worked by this
sharp practice.
II the bales were sold by weight.
considerable discrepancy would appear,
md there would be a general struight-
oning OF accounts all nrourd
When romonatrutDd with the un-
eorupulous dealer simply says tina. his
customers prefer TO buy by the bale,
Hrd MS he for very obvious reasons
preiers 20 buy light bales by weight, Il
Is difficult 20 rectlty mntten' ms long as
one class seem perfectly willing TO be
hoodwinked IN the matter.