East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-25
NEWS OF FARM AND RANGE
WHEAT SLIGHTLY UP
BUT MARKET QUIET
rs CENTS OPENLY OFFERED FOR
CLUB - HARD WHEAT In
STRONG DEMAND BY
MILLS.


Wheat in the local market IS slight
ly stronger today with IS cents being
openly offered for club. For Salt
Lake club, hard wheat the price OF
so cents has been offered. There i5
practically no business underway as
the farmers have their hearts set on
higher prices because OF the war and
the buyers say the business before
them at this time is not such as to
justify higher figures. Most of the
selling done recently has been to
northwest mills. There is an especi-
ally strong demand for bluestem and
all hard wheat, as is reflected by the
quotations. There is feeling among
farmers and some other people THAI
an advance will occur when war risks
are fully arranged for and when ship
! ping becomes resumed in earnest.
Whether this will prove true remains
F.. to be seen. On the other hand those
! not interested in building the price
of wheat assert that Europe will buy
wheat only as it is needed. Consid-
/ erable wheat has been obtained al
ready and Will suffice for a time.
( High prices will not be paid at this
time it is claimed for wheat to ba
used next spring. The advocates OF
high price wheat fall back on the fact
there is shortage in the world sup
ply and with a rising market before
them believe their. views will prove
, justified
Afraid OF Feeding-There are signs
in abundance that farmers with hay
/ are going to be very reluctant about
I buying cattle at high prices to feed
this year They followed that course
last fall. feeding out valuable hay
only to be squeezed when the time
came to turn their beef. 1t is said
that not feeder in Umatilla county
made a cent last year. Some OF
them virtually lost their hay. Thus
far this fall indications point to high
prices for range cattle while at the
same time hay is scarce with pros
poets of good prices for hay during
the winter. Under these circumstan-
ces it is evident many farmers will
prefer to sell tneir hay and Will re-
frain from taking any chances by
buying beef at high prices. They
nave bcSL Caught OiCe anu Will Do
wary of stepping into the same game
again. There are well informed men
who thing this will be good year
! to feed because SO many will refuse.
However. the factor that scares the
farmer is the fact that after fatten-
ing his beef he will have no assur-
ance of securing a fair price for his
stuff. The Portland market is the
stumbling block he is unwilling 70 go
against
VIII Go to TexaS-Dr W r
Campbell leaves today for Fort Worth
Texas. where he will be delegate from
Oregon 10 the national meeting of
the Farmers Educational and CO.
operative union
Buying Project Lands z. A.
Worthington. in the tax department
of the O.-W r. & y. Co, and some
friends have been buying project
lands near Hermiston. Mr. Worth
ington is said to have great conf
dence in the future OF the project.
Creamery TO Close Down The
Jensen creamery company is prepar-
ing to close down its local creamery
! September l ana there are pros
poets the plant may be transferred to
local ownership. The creamery is
one of the many creameries owned by
the Jensen comany and It is said tho
business has not received the proper
attention with the result business has
not been profitable. Outside butter
has competed successfully with the
local butter and at the same time
some local cream has been shipped
from here TO Walla Walla for man
ufacture. The creamery has a Lease
on the location in the ice and cold
storage plant and the machinery
cannot be removed until the cxpira-
ton OF the lease which will be sever.
al months vet. In the meantime "
is thought by Earl Gnlanlers OF tho
Pendleton lee 4 Cold storage co. that
some individual or company may be-
found desirous OF taking over tho
plant ana business