The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-07
The Farm and Farmer
BY WILLIAM \ sANsoRN

With wheat up % cents from the re-
cent low for December, at $50 in
Chicago on Monday. all our country
elevators again advanced their buying
prices. No. red cash wheat sold at
s2.07. while No. hard only brought
S1.SS on the sample tables at Chicago.
But the advances in bid prices for
wheat by nearby elevators have not
thus far tempted our farmers to sell.
E. C. Troutwine, manager of the Mon
roe Equity Exchange company eie-
vator at West Manchester, says the
farmers are holding for 81 at least.
and mostly want still more. They
have been unable to buy wheat in
appreciable quantity since the break
set in, and this especially refers to
recent weeks, when wheat struck the
toboggan. Around harvest time it
was different, of course, and consider
able grain came in, direct from the
machines. Farmers are also holding
corn. There Is still considerable wheat
in farmers hands in Monroe township.
Mr.. T-outwine says they have been
able to get soft coal enough to supply
all pressing demands, right along, al
though they could have sold more had
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some in their bins. and have had right
along most of the fall.
Talk So Wheat at Milton.
The manager of the Milton Grain
company says that farmers have chirk-
ed up a bit because of the recent ad-
vances in grain, but that none is being
offered, either at Milton, Bentonville or
Reeson's Station. They are believers
in higher prices, and are expecting
country elevator bids of 81 for wheat
shortly, and it is thought that this fig
ure would bring out some wheat, but
how much is the question.
The Milton folks have three cars of
coal on the road, which they are need
ing badly just now, their only point
having supply being Bentonville,
where they are fixed for a week or
two
College Corner Liberal Buyer.
The College Corner Milling COM
pany said Monday evening that. on
, the present central market basis, they
could pay $1.SS for good milling
wheat. But at that they would have a
hard time getting any quantity, as the
farmers down that way are talking
$3.50 for it. They are buying very
little corn for milling purposes, and
while some corn in that section is dry
enough to shell, the bulk of it is
not
AS to soft and wet corn there comes
the same complaint from Centerville.
Walter Mathews reports that they are
taking in some corn that is all right,
| but there is a great deal of soft corn
in his district, or at least a lot Of it
which will not yet shell, owing to lack
! of curing weather since much of it was
! shocked.
Mr.. Mathews reports a car of soft
coal in on Saturday and three cars on
Monday. They now have West Vir
ginia, Ohio and Kentucky Goals on
track or in their bins.
Bidding IS Cents For Oats.
w. B. Woodward, of Dublin, says
that he has managed to buy about
1000 bushels of corn so far this fall
and that he paid 60 cents for the last
lot He has been bidding As cents for
oats, but that figure has not tempted
! farmers to sell, most of them feeling
that oats will presently be worth more
money and are willing to take a
chance on their judgment. He says
they are now pretty well fixed as to
soft coal but that hard coal has been
hard to get. Nor has it been easy
picking to keep up a good supply oil
bituminous.
Bidding $1.s2 For Wheat.
Ed Price, manager of the National
Grain company, says they are bidding
s1.S2 for wheat, 7S cents per hundred
for corn, and Al to AZ cents for oat.
at their various elevators at Boston
| Wits, Fountain City and Kitchell. HI
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