Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — WHEAT AND CORN. [ARTICLE]

WHEAT AND CORN.

Spring Wheat Crop la Paid to Be Not Very Good in Point of Quality. The quality of the new spring crop has been a mooted question. For this reason a Chicago paper has obtained from official sources the inspection returns at Minneapolis, the largest spring wheat receiving point, and presents it as a very fair index to the character (quality) of the last crop. It is a good crop in quantity, but the figures are uot especially encouraging from a quality standpoint. Here are the returns for the last three months, showing the number of car loads received and the way they are graded: Grades— Aug. Sept. Oct. Totals. No. 1 northern.2,2ll 7,188 11,235 20,034 No. 1 hard.... 72 153 80 305 No. 2 1,000 3,790 4,993 6,998 No. 3 207 070 2,900 3,783 Rejected 1,008 3,717 2,057 6,812 No grade 75 251 208 534‘ Winter 17 3 20 40 Total car5..5,199 15,778 21,529 39,106 Thus it will be seen that only a fraction of over 50 per cent, received nt Minneapolis in three months lias been of a quality good enough to grade as really merchantable—as contract. The above represents about 25,000,000 bushels of wheat. The new corn crop is beginning to move —is moving, in fact—hence increasing re-

ceipts at nil markets are promised. No (natter what the price is a certain amount is sure to be marketed as soon as ready. Taxes have to be paid and debts contracted during the growing of the crop must be met. It would appear that big crop prices already prevail, and for this reason it would not seem possible for values to sink much, if any, lower. In lowa, Kansas und Nebraska the producer will get very little for his crop, 12Vi@15c per bu, perhaps. Oats are not being marketed so freely lately, perhaps on account of the very low price. Provisions have shown a little more life, but are still very uninteresting.