The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-18
BARLEY IS The STUFF
II Is Now the Most Pref able Cereal
Crop in Gallaiin.
FIGURES THAT TELL MUCH
In Other Years Wheat and Oats
Held the Call But the Farmers
switched in lime to Save
Big Money.
snoc,aI correspondepce OF the standard.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
BOHEMIAN Feb. l6.-The Gailatln valley
farmer is ever watching tie local and
eastern grain market with an eye to BUSH
moss, and never has better judgment been
shown in the planting OF crops than Tor
the years 1S93-9i by the farmers OF this
valley. In 1893, when the great crash
came, affecting every industry in this
country, the crops OF Gallatin valley were
well under way and where, in former
years, the crop was always wheat and
oaIs. the year of 1898 saw change which
was one of wisdom Tor the grain raiser
and winch brought to the valley pros
perity which could not otherwise have
been.
In 1889 oats raised in this valley were
marketed for S1.35 per hundred, and from
1889 to 1898 the average price paid was
81 per hundred, while the fall of 1893
oats were quoted at 80 cents, with no de-
mand for them at that figure. But, as if
foreseeing this, there were fewer oats
raised by the farmers of Gallatln valley
than for years before, and "A similar scale
of prices, which was ruling the wheat
market at that time, made II equally for
tunate that the crop OF wheat was like
wise small.
This scarcity of wheat and oats would
naturally tend 10 raise the price, but # it
did so, what would the price have been
with "A heavy crop, for oats which we're Doc
IN 1893 we're quoted at Coo IN 1884, and as
in 1888 there was no cash market.
The crop of 1898 had been one-third
barley, followed last year by an increase
which placed it at the head, more than
one-half of the crop being barley, and
there is no better barley in the world.
Barley had never before been raised here
in any quantity, but tho building of the
Manhattan mailing plant IN this valley in
1890 proved to the MASTERS of tho United
States the superiority of Gallatin valley
barley for mailing purposes. and il is now
used IN the brewing of the finest beer
made. Barley is not bringing a high
figure, but the fact of it's bringing cash
has kept it moving, and to-day there is no
barley in the county beyond The seed held
for the coming season, when barley viii
form the principal crop of the farmers.
Considerable barley has been shipped
from here TO be made into barley coffee.
which is much used in some sections of
the United States, while ZIG car loads have
gone TO Scotland there to be made into
pearled barley, an important article
among the food products of that country,
and the balance, and 10y far the larger
part, has gone to Milwaukee, Now York
and other points To be used in the manu-
facture of beer. There have been 500 cars
of barley shipped out of this valley since
the harvesting of the crop of 1891 and this
amount represents the hrunt OF the cash
business which has been done by the mcr-
chants of this valley for tho fall an win
ter of ls94 and 1895, as the barley has all
been sent out of Montana and has
brought into the state an amount of cash
estimated at Sl-50O0. this amount not IN
GLIDING the 10, 900 bushels of barley stored
in the elevator of the Manhattan Mailing
company which will DO made into malt
before shipping. But this was paid Tor
at the same figure as the grain which was
shipped, thus bringing Galiatin valleys
barley crop to the grand total of 546, 500
bushels for 1894 and the cash brought into
the state for tins was $4,000.
Gallatin valley wheat goes to the -four
ing mills OF the Gallatin valley. freight
rates being so high as 10 prohibit the
shipping TO eastern markets, and with
club wheat at IS cents a bushel and fife
wheat at as cents the Touring mills have
filed their elevators; they have crowded
extra warehouses full of grain and they
are overstocked with -four. Add TO this
the large quantities OF wheat still in the
granary OF the farmer which must be held
over and the prospects for wheat in 1895
are not At all encouraging. Oats, in for
mer years, have found their principal
market in Montana. while owing to tho
increase in farming along the Yellow
stone and the opening OF the Burlington,
which brings the Northern Wyoming
crops into competition with Montana
grain, this market Is now lost 20 Gallatin