The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-08-15

dred for good brewing barley, but have
been able to secure but two or three
carloads. Farmers have formed pool,
asking 90 cents. Dealers decline to pay
this. saying that the outlook does not
justify buying grain at that price.
Dayton is also becoming corn pro-
ducing country. Corn grown upon
summer fallowed land yields from 20
to 40 bushels per acre. One farmer
last year produced 10000 bushels and
this year will grow much more. No
corn is shipped out, but is fed by
the growers to hogs and the fodder to
cattle.
Harvest is we'll under way in Asotin
county The acreage is the greatest
in the history of the county and the
yield is something enormous. Most OF
the harvesting is being done with
combined harvesters, therefore there
is no shortage of men. The wheat
yield Of the entire county will average
between 45 and so bushels per acre
at an estimate Barley will yield an
average of about rs bushels to the
acre. There have been but two or
three sales of grain made, the price
ranging from 55 to 60 cents per bushel.
In waIIa walla County.
Harvest in the vicinity of Walla
Walla. had, up to the middle OF last
week, progressed far enough to assure
farmers of a splendid crop of grain,
especially fall wheat. In most parts
of the county threshing has just be-
gun-or the time has about arrived
when the machines will be started
while everywhere the header and COM
bine is to be seen Fall grain is ripe
and ready for the warehouse. Spring
grain is turning yellow and will be
ready for the reaper as soon as 1t can
be reached. The harvest now prom
Uses to be lively, but it will not be as
long drawn out as harvests have been
in recent years unless the weather
takes a turn for the worse.
Railroad men and grain dealers es-
innate that nearly 100000 bushels OF
wheat and oats will be produced in
Walla Walla county this, the average
crop being about 100000. This es-
innate is considerably above the
production of last year, but the way
fall grain is yielding the figures are
not too high. The figures would have
been made higher had not hot winds
caught spring grain just when it was
in the dough and the tops of the heads
are pinched as a consequence. Spring
grain promised well early in the sea-
son but considerable loss will result
from the short heads.
A large part of the fall grain is
bluestem, which draws price several
cents above club varieties on the mar
ket this year At present the club va
rieties are quoted about cents below
bluestem, and at times the difference
has been as high as 10 cents. The
difference is largely controlled by the
demand for bluestem for milling pur-
poses. When an order is received for
a special lot of the best variety Of
milling, buyers go out and get it, and
sometimes farmers refuse to sell with
out a bonus. At times from to 10
cents is thus contributed for a spec
tally good lot
Estimates on the Wheat Crop.
1t is announced from Portland that
statistics compiled by the traffic depart
ment of the Oregon Navigation Com
pany show the wheat crop now
being harvested in Oregon, Washing
ton and Northern Idaho, will approx
innate between 45,000000 and 50,000,-
900 bushels. The first of the new crop
is already moving, most of the pres