People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — FARMERS’ HOLDINGS LIGHT. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS’ HOLDINGS LIGHT.

Total Marketable Supply of Wheat Will He Exhausted Soon. Cincinnati, 0., March 14.—The Price Current summarizes the crop situation for the past week as follows: “The average condition of the wheat crop is maintained, but, growth is retarded by lack of genial weather, which is shaping better at the close of the week. The general position is moderately less favorable than a, year ago. Farmers - holdings of whea.t are calculated nt 115,000,000. bu. The total marketable supplies are 50,000,000 bu over home requirements for four months, ‘implying that if exports be maintained"the season will end at about the point of exhaustion of marketable wheat. The week's packing of hogs amounted to Sio.ooo, against 240,000 for* the corresponding week a year ago.