Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-10-01
Crops I,e7:szls Prices. q

Times Of Sept. I th, which goes.
to show that the great corn pro-
Educing states are as badly off
with their big crop as the wheat
raisers Of the n orthwest:
Are the hopes raised by the
abundant harvests to be disap-
pointed this year by abnormalIy
low prices? Anxiety on this score
lis not unreasonable.
The December price fo1 corn
last week touched 274c. Away
back in 1873 it did sell as low as
&c, and early in the winter Of
1890, when the great crop Of 1889
was beginning to make itself full
" felt, the price did touch 274c.
But last weeks price was in an
ticipation solely, with the crop
still in the field. and at the. tail
end of the smallest yield of re-
cent years. The May crop of the
great 1859 crop never got as low
as it touched last week 29Hc.
The lowest quotation for May
corn On that 2,10O,000,000 bu.
yield was 294c. Last years av-
erage farm value for corn was
1910 per blu. The total value to
the farmer, although. it aggregat-
ed only 1912, 100000 bu, was
was S554,719,000. The market
prices for this crop are starting
in away under even the early
figures for 1889. The average
farm value that year was $3.50.
II the figures should get as low
this year as 25c for the average
farm value, and that seems not
unlikely, this huge crop, more
than double last year, will not
yield the growers $4,000, 900
above the 1894, when the distress
among farmers was unparalleled.
The prospect is as gloomy for
profitable returns for the huge
oats harvest. Compared with last
season, the outlook for profit for
the grower is a great deal worse.
There was big 1894 oats yield,
662, 5000 bu., and the average
farm value was 32.4c, yielding
$2l4,816,000. Oats prices now
are as low as of record, 174c last
week for October. The prospect
at the moment is for the lowest
average farm value, than in 1889,
when it was 23c a bushel. But
at that rate this 100000 bu.
crop would yield the grower only
$165 900, 900, $40, 600, 900 less than
the 1894 oats crop sold for.
The flax seed yield is double
last years, about 19,O00,0O5 bu ,
against 100000 bu., but prices
are under 81, while the last crop
began at around 1926, sold all
winter around $1.40 and went out
around that quotation.
Last years potato crop, 170,-
100000 bu.. averaged the grower
over 53c on the farm. There are
over 200,000,000 bu. of potatoes
this year, but they are selling
here at Chicago at under SOC, and
in the northwest at under 2Oc a
bushel. To-day's Chicago price
is less than half last years, Csc
to SOC in South Water street.
against Csc to zoe in September,
1894. If that sort Of return is tc
be gotten for this years bumper
crop, and the whole discussion is
about present prices, the croI
will return the growers less thar
$50, 100000 against $90,000,00(
last year.
Pork is most at 50. not the low
record by any means, but low
enough to be rarity for all that
January product is on a leve
which presumes 81 hogs this
fall.
The wheat prices is in the sos
with The price showing no incli
nation to do anything but decline
| There is no comfort in these
quotations for any class. The
railroads have been getting abou
1910 a bushel for. hauling corr
out of Nebraska and Kansas. 1
is likely that the farmers vii
pay as much for transporting t.
market as they get on the farm
for the grain? Will itnot mean ;
| general granger legislation TO.
lower rail rates or a locking VI
of the grain west? Corn at 1244'
: a bushel, which the present De
cember and May prices at Chi
i cago mean to the Nebraska ant
Kansas farmer, will certainly no
4 pay many bills OF buy many nev
goods or permit any Injuries. I
lever corn went into the woot
stoves it will go this winter a
! these present prices. ...-
It should be added that til
paper from which the above wa
taken is an old party organ.
!. "a Grand Forks, n. ID; man ha
J, so many potatoes that he says i
won't pay to dig them at presen
i prices, and he has accord ingl
Invited his neighdors to he'll
3 thems selves and take all they wan
3 for tho mere trouble nf 1iuuin,