The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
HOME WHEAT MARKFr
Excellent Facilities for Farma,..
Dispose of their Produce at H,.s
est Market Prices-Responsiss'a 81
Business Firms Engaged in pUN w.
ing and Selling Grain.

The farmers of Frederick Count,
certainly fortunate in havipy - az
county seat an active market for ~,
produce at the topmost prices on >
change at this time. Our miller. ~,
grain merchants are wide awako
thoroughly up with the latest tin
the market, and each day when rb.'l
is coming in rapidly turn over th.
sands of bushels to customers in W
larger cities. %
Baltimore is a heavy purchase,
this section, and car loads of the gold.s
grain have been finding their wsv ~
that city for storage or export purnos.
Western wheat has not been racoi,',
in great quantities yet, and henco a
large local sales. The price of wbs
fell few points in Baltimore on Tn'
day. Western wheat immediate =
livery was SIT cents; on Monday il NV
- 1t NE
So cents. July wheat closed at !,
cents; it was 50! on Monday
Of course the prices of wheat -,
other agricultural products is higberh
Baltimore and other large cities havn,
facilities for prompt receipts and shin
ments, and the price here is govern,
by freight charges, cost of handlr,
and small percentage of prosi
Dealers here except at the Elevator A,
not store wheat. but consign it at ono
into other hands. They have few st%
age conveniences. The freight charoa
from Frederick to Baltimore eat nm H.
tween three and four cents on esob
bushel of wheat. u
Among the most prominent grain
dealers in Frederick who handle tbs
bulk of the wheat produced in hi,
county and who have the confidenceI
all who do business with them. ara ]
S. W. JarbOe on E. Patrick street ors
of the oldest houses in town,
Hargett on Patrick and Carroll street,
also concern of long standing Tate
Miller & Company of Baltimore, Iesses
of the Frederick Elevator Works on
Carroll street extended, one of IN.
largest firms in the Monumental CITY
doing hourishing export business and
getting most of the wheat from Fred.
erick through local dealers at thei,
store houses in Baltimore, and a new
company of Columbia, Pa, who hay.
recently purchased the GambliIl steam
roller mill on Carroll street for S12OW
and who will enlarge its capacity and
do general business. A. NJ. Brugh d
Columbia, and Mr.. Geo. L. Cramer o.
Frederick, are interested in the con
Germ.
With these firms actively competin!
for precedence in the farmers favor. HI
can be assured of the highest prices AMI
honest treatment.
Wheat sold in Baltimore on Mondal
last, as high as So cents for spot wheat
July delivery S23; August, 1874 AM
September, 7S5. These figures are aR
proxlmated twenty cents a bushe
higher than this time last year. Ii
some sections of the country the well
is below the average, and in fact th
entire crop of the United States
only an average one. The demand 70
wheat for export is potent factor il
the increase of prices. Such a condi
ton especially at harvest time was no
thought probable by the most san
guine believer in ultimate dolIa
wheat. Some of the newspapers, b.
the way, speak most encouragingly Q
the prospect of wheat reaching tn
hundred penny mark, and that TOO q
not a great while away. OF courst
this is only surmise and a general OF
timism that is most pleasant to ponde
over, but the reality is another thing
If farmers could afford to store an
and hold their wheat it might be pro-
liable for them to do so, but to man
OF them a bird in the hand is worth
dozen in the bush and so they mean
create their grain into cash whilst til
good prices prevail.
In some quarters the increase
prices is regarded as only Temporal
furry, and it is predicted that whe
the movement of the crop gets fairl
under way more regular prices will
maintained. Just now the urgency
shipments is declared to be the chic
cause in the increase of prices. |
France the threshing has revealed
shortage in the crop and that countr
Will probably be buyer. The Anger
tine Republic may also buy LIBERAL
ofus as their wheat crop is short thl
season. In India the wheat crop
far short of the average.
In Maryland the wheat crop neve
came to such a magnificent yiel(
Reports from the farming district
show that the average run anywheI
from % to As bushels TO the acre an
the general average is about 80 bushe
per acre. In Frederick County, frOI
the accounts of crops threshed, the az
erage yield is in the neighborhood
% bushels per acre. Farmers al
threshing out as rapidly as possibl
and machines are at a premium. Som
have been working night and da!
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