Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — Wheat Is the Highest In Fifty Years. [ARTICLE]

Wheat Is the Highest In Fifty Years.

No. 2 red winter wheat reached the lighest price since the civil war (Monday. Two dollars was asked on the market and received. The increase overaged four cents and was due argely to the fact that there were 13,000,000 less bushels of wheat available Monday than at the same time last year. Com also took a rise and reached the high water mark since 1865, sl.o{h 3-4 heing paid. Oats rose in proportion and provisions were from 10c to 25c higher. It had been predicted for some time that prices of corn and wheat during the coming year would reach a point as high or ligher than during tjie civil war. How much higher prices will go cannot be determined.