The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-07-30
Local Hay Market
Project Question
Few Sales Made; Quar-.
antine Holds Back
State Supply

| question or nay sales lS the dali,
conversation over this city and thu
farms. The fact that the Lahontal
valley is the one section In the state
with the possible exception of Love
lock. where hay In surplus is being
cut this year, is bringing hay buyers
and some spectators to this city
Every hot day is. adding to tht
troubles of the cattle and sheepmer
and while few sales have been con
sumated in this valley the feeling i
generally expressed that fair price
will prevail for this seasons crop.
Some Hay Sold
Some hay has been disposed OF al
prices ranging from $12 to $15 pei
ten. In the latter instance it is said
that the pasturing privilege was alsc
considered, making this a good bar
gain for the hay purchasers
Tie small lots have been sold, as
the I. II. Kent Company, Gray, Reid
G Company and other commission
merchants have secured small
amounts to fill pressing orders. Mos
of the farmers are holding for what
they believe will be a uniform price
before the third crop comes ON.
Stops Hay Shipments
A recent shipment of bailed hay
from this city billed for Tonopah was
stopped before it left the local rail.
road yard. This was on account OF
the quarantine in the Wabuska sec
tion as the carload. of hay would
have to traverse this particular point
Monday Ira Kent, AL Reed, Ernest
Hursh, Carl Dodge and some others
made a trip to Carson to protest
against any such action on intra-
state movements of bay.
The hay in this case is consigned
to Tonopah as part of a 200-ton or
der. Once in Tonopah it is severa
hundred miles from another alfalfa
field and the best the weevil could
do would be to tackle some of tho
ore dumps in the silver camp. Thi.
hay was consigned to a dairy In tn,
silver camp that has to depend OF
imported feed for the cattle.
The committee took up the mattel
with DR.. Records, she governor anC
others in Carson Monday, as 1t wa.
generally conceded that while Cali
fornia has a right to place an EN-
barge on Nevada products that thi.
state should be in a position to serve
it's own people irrespective of the
desires of California
The ruling applied by DR.. Records
that hay cannot be shipped out of
this county to another whore 1t cross
es into a noninfected section is far
reaching. Farmers in Elko have made
application for hay shipments and
something will have to be done to
furnish the home market. There is
belief that some arrangement can be
made to take care of the situation
A peculiar situation in relation to
the shipment to Tonopah arises, as
COW men in Lyon county, where the
hay passes In transit, are in this val
ley today looking for feed for theiI
stock owing to their shortage of feed
only fifty miles away.
Feeding A Question
Several of the hay gorwers who
are not prepared to feed transient
stock are in a quandry, as it is real
lied that if they have TO erect feed.
ing quarters together with pumping
for water that this will take profit
eff to a considerable extent, and II
IS possible that this will be the one
season that such conditions will exist.
One hay grower made terms with
enc of the local merchants and took
S12 per ton for his crop rather than
agree to place corrals, water and hay
racks on his farm In some instances
combinations of alfalfa growers are
figured on and in such cases feeding
facilities will be Jointly arranged.
Buyers are here today looking over
the situation and while only small
lets have changed hands there is no
stability or uniformity to the local
market. Some OF the growers are
urging a get-together meeting with
the hay growers to take In the situa-
tion and set a standard price on the
over cut this season. The large pro-
ducers are plain In their statement
that they will not set a price until
the growing season has closed, a.
they cal afford to speculate, while
the SIN; II growers are in most cases
anxious to get the money, as 1t is
needed On the farms.
Fallen people who have visited
Mason and Smith valley and Carson
valley come home convinced that the
cattle and sheep men of this western
end of the state must look to this
section for winter feed. AS the mat.
ter now stands it is a case of modifi-
cation of the state rule on weevil
quarantine and the settling of a uni
form price on the hay that is to be
sold