The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-09
HERE'S YOUR PROSPERITY.
A Goldbug Paper Informs the
Farmers That They Might
Better Raise Less.
CROP WORTH LESS THAN LAST
YEAR.
(ChlcagO Times-Herald.)


abundant harvest to be disappointed
this year by abnormally low prices?
Anxiety on this score is not unreason-
able.
The December price for corn last
week touched 279c. Away back in
1873 it did sell as low as 27c, and early
in the winter Of 1890, when the great
crop Of 1889 was beginning to make it.
self fully felt, the price did touch 27c.
But last weeks price was in anticipa-
tion solely, with the growing crop
still in the field, and at the tail end
Of the smallest yield of recent years.
The May price on the great 1889 crop
never got as low as it touched last
week-2s4c.
The lowest quotation on that 2, ,1OO,-
100000 bushel yield was 294c. Last
years average farm value for corn 45.7
per bushel. The total value to the
farmer although it aggregated only
1,2l1 100000 bushels was 1854 ,419, ,OOO
The market prices for this crop are
starting in a way under even the
early figures for 1886. The average
farm value that year was 1913.
II the figures this year should get as
low as 25c. for the average farm value,
and that seems unlikely. this huge
crop, more than double last year. will
not yield the growers $50, O00, 900 above
the 1894, when the distress among
farmers was unparalleled.
FIFTY MILLIONS LESS FOR OATS.
The prospects is as gloomy for prof
liable returns for the huge oats harv-
est. Compared with last season, the
outlook for profit for the grower is a
great deal worse. There was a big
1894 oats yields, 662,OO0,OO0 bushels,
and the average farm value was 81. 4c.,
yielding $2l4, $4,000 Oats prices now
are as low as of record, 173c last week
for October. The prospect at the mo-
ment is for the lowest average farm
value lower than in 1889, when it was
23c bushel. But at this 10000, 900
bushel crop would yield the grower
only $l65 900. 900, $49, ,OOO, 900 less than
the 1894 oats crop sold for.
The flax seed yield is double last
years, about 100000 bushels,
| against 100000 bushels but prices are
| under 81, while the last crop began at
around $l.25. sold all winter around
| $l.4O and went out around that quota
| tiOn.
Last years potato crop, 10000, 900
bushels averaged the grower over SO
cents on the farm. There are over 20O,-
0OO 900 bushels OF potatoes this year,
but they are selling here in Chicago
| LOT tc nd in nrth Of
20 cents a bushel. Today's Chicago
price is less than hall last years 25 to
30 cents in South Water street,
against IS to 10 cents in Septem Der,
1894. If that sort OF return is to be
cotton for this years bumper crop,
and the whole discussion is about
present prices, the crop will return
the grower less than $50, 100000,
against O,OOO,000 last year.
| Pork is almost at SIS, not the low
record by any means, but low enough
to be rarity for all that. January
| product is on a level which presumes
3ac hogs this fall.
The wheat price is in the sos, with
| the price showing no inclination to
do anything but decline.
| LOW PRICES UNCOMFORTABLE ALL
AROUND.
There is no comfort in these quota
tion for any class The railroads have
been getting about 125c a bushel for
hauling corn out Of Nebraska and
Kansas. 1t is likely that the farmers
will pay as much for transporting to
market as they get on the farm Tor
the grain? Will it not mean a general
granger legislation for lower rail
rates or locking up Of the grain in
the west. Corn at q cents Il bushel
W hich the present December and May
prices at Chicago mean to the Ne
braska and Kansas farmer, will GER
tainly not pay many bills or buy many
new goods or permit many luxuries.
If ever corn went into the wood
stoves it will go this winter at these
present prices.