East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-28
NEWS OF FARM AND RANGE
HAYMEN WILL DEMAND
LOWER PRICED CATTLE
II. ii. TROWBRIDGE EXPECTS
RANGE CATTLE TO SELL
LOWER THAN LAST FALL


That the price of range cattle for
feeding purposes will be around six
and six and quarter cents this fall
is the belief Of H. H. Trowbridge,
prominent Grant county grower. who
has been in the city on a brief trip
today He says farmers with hay
generally realize they paid too much
for their feeders last fall and are
therefore insisting on lower price
this year. Last year many paid seven
cents for range cattle and were un-
able to realize a profit on their busi
ness. This fall he believes the price
will rule a half cent or more under
last years price.
In Grant county the dry spell has
been in evidence as we'll as elsewhere
says Mr.. Trowbridge. But no harm
has resulted from it yet There was
an abundance of rain up until July
but the country has become very dry
during the last two months and a rain
will be welcome. Some Grant county
beef is now ready for turning off and
| the growers are not satisfied with the
prices offering. They would like TO
secure the same prices paid them last
year but are so far unable to do so.
Wheat Market Unchanged-There
has been practically no business in
wheat locally today the price Of club
being quoted variously from so to 81
cents a bushel. The market is so
strong and has been advancing so reg.
ularly that farmers are generally hold
ing for higher prices. Dealers real
ize this and are making but little ef-
fort to buy wheat The sales are few
and consist chiefly in small lots
Some club sold in Portland today al
"a cents, thus indicating the market
there to be stronger.
Using Parcels Post-Last week q
big shipment of 500 pounds of peach.
es was received at the Freewater DOS
office. The postage was from 26 tC
81 cents per box, the consignmer
going to Long Creek, this being IL
the second zone. The shipment b,
express to this point would probabi,
; cost 81 per box.
n An order was received this weei
v by the Union from Canyon City. Ore
8 20 ship six crates of peaches each da,
r BY mail. This is also in the secont
, Yone being about 100 miles from Pen
d dleton in the interior where the ex
g press rates would be prohibitive. DI
i SrapT. is shipping six boxes of peach
v IS. per day to Ukiah, oregon, and ex
q pects to increase his postal shipmen
Il TO 80 boxes per day. On Monda
It Postmaster Ray sent out by mail be
. tween 80 and 40 boxes. AS soon a
IS the reople are aware of the facilitie
e given by the parcel post a large in
crease of mail matter will be very ev
ident nt-Freewater Times.
Walla Walla Wheat Pit.-For tn
n third time within the last 16 year
= wheat was sold for over a dollar
u bushel in Walla Walla yesterday aft
ernoon. says the Morning Union, ez
) element being great among dealer
and farmers as a result.
Bluestem was in demand and sey
eral good sized lots were sold, IL
cluding the Tim Berry lot of severs
thousand bushels, the John Thonne
| lot of a few thousand bushels an
= the Henry Vincent lot of several thol
sand sacks the latter being bougf
by W. B. Shaffer of the Preston-Sha
- fer Milling company. ]. z. Smith
/ the Kerr-Gifford company also S,
lie cured several good sized lots. Tt
: Powers-Greenville lot of about Z
g 600 sacks was also on the market b,
lie was not reported sold.
There was a wide range of pric,
'e throughout the day, but most Of II
wheat sold brought about s1.01 ar
lie in some instances a little more.
wa; even reported late last evenir
is that some bluestem lots of small sii
brought as high as s1.O6 yesterday
,ri
RI Sells is Here-F. R. Sells, big Gral
county sheepman and sheep dealer
in Pendleton today. Mr. Sells bougl
an immense number of sheep through
as out the interior last spring.