The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-09-14
PRICES BETTER
FOR ALL CROPS
Quotations Generally
Higher than last Year
Believe Upward trend
Means New Era

Agricultural conditions in Canyon
County and Idaho generally are bet
ter than they were last year. jess
Gowen. secretary OF the local kiwani'
club, points out in his weekly lettel
TO club members. He bases that con
clusion upon a comparison of prices
for farm products this year and last
His letter follows:
"Soundness underlines all the mar.
kets today IL is the result OF the
buying power of the people. Pack
ers are not storing-the meats go into
almost immediate consumption, and
produce is being consumed The stor-
ing OF meats. butter and eggs is less
than normal 1t is a tide that cannot
be easily disturbed and should not be.
The woes OF the farmer are decreas-
ing. Cattle. hogs. sheep. wheat. corn,
barley, oats, potatoes, cream and eggs
are selling higher than last year. Ma
ture is yielding abundant crops. Eu-
rope is buying of us more freely.
What more do we want?
The light shines strong ahead. If
there is handwriting on the wall 1t
reads for the radical and the disturber
and it says Thy day is over. You
would set at naught the laws of God
and nature. You would defy the great
law of supply and demand. but your
efforts are futile"
Comparative prices for farm pro-
ducts based on Chicago as of August
70. 1922 and 1928. and the prices paid
to the farmer in Caldwell September
LIST. 1922 and 1923.
Chicago, August 10Th
Cattle, 1922. S6.7s "a $40 95; 1923.
5000 a SIPS.
Hogs. average. 1922. S7.S5: 1928. IS. 40
Lambs. 1922. $3.50 "a $500; 1928.
$500 a Si33s.
Wheat. No. Rcr. 1922. sl0sH;
1923. Sl.02H a si.03.
Corn. No. ? Yellow, 1922. $ OF a
90. 1928, S .8711.
Oats. No 2 White. 1922, S "a al
SO: 1923. $ So a 5 .40H.
Potatoes. Early Ohios, 1922, Sl.20
q sl.30; 1928. Sl.90 a 500.
Butter, Extra, 1922, S IS; 1923,
.43Iz.
Eggs. 1922. $ rs; 1928. $ .27 al
%.
Caldwell. September LIST
Hogs. 1922. $3.50; 1928. 5000 al
$50.
Wheat. per bushel, 1922, 5 rs a 81
925. 70 "a 80.
Oats. per bushel. 1922, .07, 1928. rs.
Barley, per bushel, 1922, 90. 1923. {
10 D
Alfalfa seed. per cwt. 1922, 1900 a
400, 1923. l4.O0 a 1000. i
Clover seed, per cwt.. 1922. 1900 al
400. 1923. 400 a 1000.
Potatoes, cwt., car lots. 1922, no
ale. 1923. LOO a Ito.
Eggs. per case, 1922. $50 "a ZOO, c
923. 500 a $50 a
Cream, Portland, Aug. 81, 1922, AZ. r
923. 40. t
Cream, Caldwell. Aug. 81. 1922, SO
o23. AZ.
I'm the above price list we wish to
all your attention to the two items
Tat bring more ready money into h
lis section than any other products. e
nd the increase in prices paid to the II
Irmers is due largely to better mar n
Its facilities established in Caldwell, il
rgely through the efforts of the XII n
anis club and the Commercial club {
I'd the Farm Bureau. We refer to g
&c Cooperative Egg marketing as
'ciation, which is lifting the surplus
'gs. grading them and shipping in
r lots and the better market condi-
pms for cream that has been brought 5
'out by the change in ownership of
IT local creamery, who now manu-
cture all the cream they purchase
ON the producers, ship in car lots
d the producers get the benefit. :
-ior to this year the producer sold =
cream to stations who bought an
margin of prices at from S to
nts under Portland prices. Now the
ference is only one to two cents
der Portland. About two hundred
ousand pounds OF butter fat is pro-
eed in this section every month.
king eight to ten thousand dollars
r month more than the producers y
, getting on the same market for
,ir cream. This amount wen, for -
crhcad hcfnre 10 Keen IN the dnnL n