The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-21

cents in Kansas, and is quoted at St.
Louis % to %. Ohio River points
26 to % cents, but is above the mar
ket in this vicinity, being offered in
small lots and bringing 30 to 40 cts.
Large quantities are still in farmers
hands in the great corn states, and
dealers confidently predict lower
figures will move same as soon as
seeding is over and hauling begins.
The Dingley bill has raised a
veritable storm from the great "Mc-
Kinley" millers of the Northwest.
These were ardent in their support
of the Republican candidate, but
since the great surplus consuming
countries of Europe, on whom these
millers are largely dependent for
prosperity, are all in revolt against
the proposed tariff and threaten to
shut out American flour from Hol-
land, Belgium, France, Germany
and Italy, the other mans OK is
doing the goring and the millers are
loud in their protestation against
the proposed "infamy."
Minneapolis exchange says: up
to this writing, we have never seen
the beginning of a season promise
such large yield of wheat in the
I Northwest as does the present one.
Seeding is earlier than the average,
the soil is generally in splendid con-
dition, and the high price of wheat,
with low values of other grains, will
tempt the farmers to increase the
acreage over that of previous years.
Prices for the near future will de-
pend on the coming crop prospects.
We are rapidly nearing the end of
the season when any material
damage to the growing crop can be
expected from frost or floods, and, if
the next 20 days can be passed with
out such damage, prices are more
than likely to decline"
The Nashville correspondent of
the North Western Miller says:
1.-THE continued dullness in the flour
trade is accounted for by the near
ness of harvest. Large dealers are
taking only enough to meet i'm
mediate demands. Flour is too
high for them to buy freely, when
they can see signs of a big slump
within the next 60 days, when the
new crop of wheat begins to come in.
Dealers here expect the market to
open at 6Oc, and, in anticipation Of
this, it would be folly to load up at
present values"
In the states of Maryland, the
Virginias, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Texas and Arkan-
sas, the acreage Of winter wheat has
been so largely increased that pres
ent prospects promise fully 20 mil
lion bushels increase over a normal
production.
Corn is bringing $3.50 per cargo
900 lbs.) in Mexico, and higher
values are forecasted.
1t is thought wheat will be har-
vested in this section about the 10th
to 18th of June.
Government report for May shows
S0.2 against Sl.4 in April; the
Southern States averaging highest,
ranging from So in Mississippi to IS
in Texas and l02 in Maryland.
Reports in Europe are generally
favorable to crops, excepting France,
where probable reduction of 10 mil
lion bushels will occur over last
years production in wheat.
India will have no wheat for eX-
port until 1898 or $50.
Few grain growers in this country
are aware of the extent of the wheat
raised in France. With an area OF
40 thousand square miles less than
the single state of Texas, France
produces nearly $50 million bushels
of wheat, or more than One-half the
total amount produced throughout
the United States.
Good authority estimates that the
Texas wheat crop will be 30 million
bushels against IL millions in '96,
and million in '95. This is the
greatest increase in any state.
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