Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — AVERAGE PRICE OF PRODUCE. [ARTICLE]

AVERAGE PRICE OF PRODUCE.

What the Farmers Were Asking for Crops the First of This Season. The December returns to the statistical division of the department of agriculture relate principally to farm prices Dec. 1. Tlie farm price of corn averages 26.7 cents, against 45.6 last year. The average price of wheat is 53.2 cents per bushel. against 49.8 last year; of rye 43.7 cents, against 50.5; of oats 20.5 cents, against 32.9; of barley 35.4 cents, against 44.3; of buckwheat 49.2 cents, against 56.2 cents last year. The returns show the average price of hay to be $9.38 per ton, against $8.35 same date last year. The average price of tobacco is returned at 6.6 cents, against 6.7 cents last year. The price of potatoes on the farm is reported at 28.8 cents per bushel, against 56.5 cents last year. The condition of winter wheat Dec. 1 averaged for the country 81.4 per cent., against 89 last year and 91.5 in 1893. In the principal winter wheat States the percentages are as follows: Ohio, 74; Michigan, 79; Indiana, 80; Illinois, 79; Missouri, 76; Kansas, 80; Nebraska, 90; California, 102. The returns make the acreage of winter wheat just sown 104.6 percentage of that harvested in 189 p. This estimate, which is preliminary to the completed estimate of June next, makes the area sown for the harvest of 1896 23,647,000 acres. W