Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-08-12
What Is the Matter With the Grain
Market of BaltimoreH
From the Frederick Citizen.

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From the Frederick Citizen.
This inquiry is being made by the farm
ers and grain dealers of Frederick county.
The people see in the public press the
market quotations daily. and they do not
understand the conditions and they are
trying to solve the mystery The quota
tons of the price of wheat, as published
in the daily Sun and American during the
week of July closing on Saturday, the 23rd
instant, was from sixteen to twenty-five
cents higher in New York and Philadelphia
than it was in Baltimore, 1t also appeared
that all during the week wheat was sell
ing in Chicago from seven to nine cents
more bushel than wheat in Baltimore
city.
II is said, and pretty well known here,
that the grain dealers Of Baltimore have
been making great deal of money for years,
and it is equally as well known that Bal
timore has always been a poor wheat
market. We are reliably informed that the
people of Virginia and West Virginia are
shipping their wheat and corn to the South,
and they will tell you that they do it be-
cause they have better market there
than they have in Baltimore.
Thousands of bushels of wheat are
yearly shipped from Frederick county to
Philadelphia, and the farmers are getting
from five to ten cents more per bushel than
they can get in Baltimore.
Men have gone from both Frederick and
Carroll counties and have gone into the
grain business in Philadelphia and are
making money. So that both the dealers
and the Frederick county farmers are max
ing money by selling their wheat in a bet
ter market than they can get in their own
State.
We see from report in the same papers
that we have made reference to. that the
exports of wheat from Baltimore last year
fell off more than four million of bushels.
Look at the quotations daily published of
the prices paid for wheat in Baltimore Is
it any wonder then that the exports of
wheat have fallen off-rather is it not a
wonder that Baltimore gets any wheat to
exports at all
The farmers of Maryland, and even those
living within ten miles of Baltimore, can
ship their wheat to Philadelphia and New
York. and get from ten to fifteen cents
bushel more for it than they can get if
they sell it in Baltimore.
In addition to this Baltimore has had
for some years the benefit of differential
rate on freight in its favor. but we believe
that they have lately lost that and have
been trying to have it restored. Ii does
not look like the differential rate has been
of any benefit to the farmers of this State
from the prices that they have been get
ting for their wheat for years past Ac-
cording to the published prices, farmer
living within ten miles of Baltimore can
ship wheat to Chicago and get from three
to six cents bushel more for his wheat
than he can get in Baltimore.
OF course. we mean that he can get that
much more over and above the additional
freight to Chicago. The farmers of Mary
land who have wheat to sell. owe it to
their own interest to look into this matter,
for il is greatly to their interest to sell
their wheat in the best market at the best
prices that they can get for it.
We have simply put the plain facts be-
fore the people, and every farmer can by
looking at the two Baltimore papers which
have been referred to. for the week ending
July 23rd, find full verifcation of the
facts that we have stated. OF course, the
the Baltimore dealers have made big money
if these facts are as published. but the
more than they can afford to lose. or than
they ought to be made to lose.
If the farmers are not acquainted with
the dealers in New York and Philadelphia,
it is an easy matter to get acquainted.
The farmers are not acquainted with the
Baltimore dealers either, because they sell
to the county dealers who sell to the Bal
timOre dealers. The country dealers can
just as easily ship their wheat to New
York or Philadelphia. 1t is the duty Of
the home dealer to look after the interests
of the farmers. because the farmers pay
the dealers. not the city business men. Let
the farmers ask the county dealers about
the wheat prices that we have stated here
in. and see il they do not tell them that
something is wrong with the Baltimore
wheat market,