Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-06-24
Grain Trade and Crops.
The Cincinnati Price Current of last
Thursday says.-
feb 1-1yr

The Cincinnati Price Current of last
Thursday says
"The past week has been generally
favorable for leading crops, in most
sections of the country. The absence
of interfering rains has enabled farm
ers in the western corn States to make
good progress in cultivating this crop,
and in bringing it into substantially
promising condition; the temperature
has hardly been high enough to pro.
duce- forcing growth. The general
position of the oats crop appears to DE
well maintained, SO far as can be
Judged at this stage of the growth.
In regard to the winter wheat crop
there is nothing in the recent informa-
ton to change the general promise,
which can not reasonably be consider
ed as Indicating a larger production
than was harvested last year. the full
volume of which was probably not
reflected in the official return, notwith
standing the manifest effort to over
come the tendency to underestimate.
The years domestic consumption Of
wheat for all purposes can not properly
be recognized as less than 375, 600, 900
bushels, which with exports Of 1875. 000,-
900 makes SOC, 100000 as the years dis
tribution-with probably as much
wheat remaining in the country as a
yea, ago, for July 1.
1t can. therefore, be put down as a
practical certainty that last years
wheat crop was not less than SEQ, 600, 600
bushels, divided approximately as
275, 100000 for winter, and $4,000, 600
for spring grain-the latter possibly
not being fully credited with its pro-
portion.
The present situation of the spring
wheat crop is somewhat irregular, but
in the main is favorable, recent condi-
tons of an adverse nature not being
sufficient to essentially lower the gen
eral promise.
The hay crop promises we'll in
large portion of the area, but will not
be full crop probably. The deficiency,
the extraordinary sowings of millet
furnish large supply of forage mate
rial.
Indications are favorable for an
abundant yield of potatoes.
The wheat markets have not dis
played so wide a range in fluctuations
as in the preceding week, but the
changes at times have been very
striking, rejecting the varying influ-
enca and power of contrasting specula-
tive forces rather than visible changes
in the question of supply and demand"
SOUTHERN SOUND MONEY Con-
GREeSMEN.-If, as is intimated, it is
the intention of the triumphant free
silver Democrats of the South to Turn
their sound money representatives.
out of Congress, they will lose serious
ly in their strength in the House Of
Representatives Among them are
the most creditabe representatives.
the South sends to that body. Such
men as Patterson of Tennessee, Turner
of Georgia, and Tucker Of Virginia,
are among the most valuable members
of that body in general legislation.
They come near being the saving
element of their section. The Repub-
Iicans, with few honorable exceptions.
send no southern members who are of
value as legislators, they being in
alliance with the Populists in all but
one or two States, and in favor of free
silver almost to man. In fact. they
took the lead of the Democrats in
coming out on the free silver side
Boston Herald, June, 1896.
The part of the Union Theological
Seminary at Richmond, known as
Watts Hall, has been let to contract
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