East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-25
VERY LITTLE HAY WILL
Be CARRIED OVER INTO
NEW CROP YEAR--REPOOT
Chief Centers Clean Up Surplus
and Start New Year With
1922 Offering for Sale.

That the marketable surplus OF the
1921-22 hay crop has been well clean
ed up and but little old hay Will ne
carried over into the new crop year is
indicated By the quarterly survey re-
Gently comp eted by the U. 5. Depart
nent of Agriculture. :
For eight of the principal surplus 4
timothy producing states the average
percentage marketed to June 10 was
estimated n about 95 per cent com
pared with 50 per cent for the same
statees at the corresponding time last
year. In ten alfalfa surplus produc-
ing states SO per cent of the hay TO De
marketed WIS reported as having oeen
sold by June Is, compared with 90
per cent on June Is, 1921. 4
Prairie hay appears from the re- +
ports to have been sold up much
closer than at the corresponding time
last year, as about 90 per cent OF the
marketable surplus was reported
marketed to June Is, compared WIN +
only rs per cent on that date IN lS2l'
The movement from the various Sec
tions was about normal during the
shipping periods. OF the timothy SNIP
ping states New York did not snip SO
heavily as usual during the early part
| of the season, and hay from Michigan |
Indiana, and Ohio, instead of from
New York, was sent into the New
| England territory.
| Althouch the movement of alfalfa
| from Idaho and Colorado was light UP |
! to the first of the year, shipments ap-
pear to have been increased to such
an evtent that only about 10 per cent
of the surplus remained to be market
Ell on the date of the survey Prac-
| tically all of the old crop of alfalfa
!; has been marketed in Arizona, New
Mexico, California, Washington and
4 Nebraska. The movement of the new
crop is also well under way In the
southwestern states, and of the first
cutting the following percentages are
reported as already marketed Arl5
i IONA. 20 Der cont California, rs per
cent: New Mexico, so per cent; Oklar
/ homa 20 per cent; Texas. so per cent
The reduction in freight rates ana
the relatively high market prices paid
for prairie hay have resulted in q
much better clean-up of the old crop
Ethan in the previous year. With a
marketable. surplus ranging only from
: to 10 per cent in the various states
| on June 10 very lllllN Olh hieNS 49,
carried into the new crop year,
) Prices for all kinds of hay were
) more stable than during the previous
crop year. The average price Of MOL
: timothy at the principal markets AT
$ the beginning of the crop year was
about $23.5O per ton. This price tluc-
tnated within a range of only w per
ton until about April i when an ad-
vance began which carried the price
: to $26.75 per ton during May from
the first of June the average price
: declined steady and closed the year
at $3.50, the same price at which the
\ crop year opened. This trend IS de-
y eidedly different from that OF the pre-
! vious crop year when the price OF NO.
E 1. 1920, to $3.50 on July. l, 1921.
S The trend Of alfalfa prices was sim
Ell liar to that of timothy prices, although
$ at the close of the year the decline
0 was slightly more marked; the aver
age price Of No. / alfalfa dropped
from about $95.75 on April l, 1s22, TO
SIS per ton on June "a. The closing
g price for the year, however, was only
i s2.25 lower than at the close of the
previous year.
f The prairie price range was $l3.15-
: s17 per ton, but during most of the
e crop year the average price fluctuated
: between $14 and SIS per ton, The
f closing price was practically the same
e as at the beginning of the year,
: Notwithstanding the fact that ship
e pers reported a light demand during
y the greater part of the year the distri-
: button of the crop, which was a nor
Il NAL one, indicates that the movement
7 of hay for the year WIS generally nor
NAL
The scarcity of hay in New Eng
land caused a larger movement taan
g usual to that section from Michigan
= Indiana, and Ohio, but this was offset
& by lighter movement from these
It states to the southeastern states whore
e there was an increased amount Of To-
IS cal forage.
e The lowering OF freight rates was
n instrumental in getting the movement
# of alfalfa and prairie hay back into
e more normal channels. Rates were
: still too high, however, TO resuint
y shipments to distant markets and .
y, larger amount of both alfalfa and
J. prairie were marketed near the ship
e ping point than before the advance III
n freight rates.
e Marketing costs were lowered II
l. some extent during the crop year. bu;
3 the principal decreases were in the
costs of preparation and OF delivery
to market. Except in one or two CEN
trail western. markets the charges q
= terminals were practically the same
as when hay was selling at the peak
: of war prices. Baling costs. as report
ed. ranged from about 81 to $3.50 per
ton, commission charges 5Oc-S2 per
ton, and total selling charges at tor
minal markets s1.50-s4.50 per ton.
tt is estimated by the L. $ Depart
mcnt of Agriculture that the total pro-
duction of tame and wild hay viii be
about 1O7, 900 tone compared with
9s.sO2. 900 tons for 1921. an increase
OF little over 100000 tons.
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