Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1911 — IOWA FARMERS [ARTICLE]

IOWA FARMERS

Who Held Crops for Higher Prices Sadly Disappointed. Des Moines, lowa, April 4. The amount of corn of the 1910 crop now in the hands of farmers is about 150,000,000 bushels, as against 120,000,000 bushels at this time last year of the 1909 crop. The reserve stock of oats is 36,000,000 bushels more now than a year ago, and of wheat 1,600,000 bushels more. Farmers have been holding for higher prices, only to be disappointed. If the season of 1911 should prove even an average crop year, next fall would no doubt witness an era of low-priced grains, i