Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1913 — Onion Buyer Says Market Does Not Justify Quotations. [ARTICLE]

Onion Buyer Says Market Does Not Justify Quotations.

A young man representing L. S. Brown & 00., produce commission merchants of Chicago, visited the Newland onion fields Thursday and made an offer of 65 cents per bushel. He did not buy any onions, although he stated that onions sold for that price within the past few days. He said that there must be some mistake about 85 cents being offered as he learned of no sales at a higher price than 70 cents. The agent was frank to say that he expected the price to Increase some but not extensively. He said that of 29 correspondents his company had only 7 reported a crop failure and that the others varied from 30 per cent crop to almost a full yield and that there was probably 50 per cent as many onions on the whole as there were a year ago. • He said £hat the growers were not the only losers last year, but that commission men also saw thousands of bushels go to waste. He does not expect prices to get nearly so high as they were two years ago.