Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — Holding Produce for a Rise. [ARTICLE]

Holding Produce for a Rise.

Indiana Letter in Country Gentleman. The present prices are a lesson to those farmers who are always holding their produce for a rise, which nine times out of ten does not come. Wheat sold in July and August at $1.04 to sl.lO ; com November, 500 : December, 47c ; hay, in August, sl2 to 13 per ton, and the indicacations are that they will not reach the top figures before another crop. They not only lose the difference in price, but nterest, shrinkage, ratage, damage from weevil, and all the other ills that stored grain is heir to. They renew their notes and let their store bills run, thus not only losing themselves but discommoding others. My invariable rule is to sell as soon as the crop is garnered, and my average prices for the past five years have been as follows: Wheat, $1.06 ; corn, 43%0, and hay, sl2, which is a very satisfactory price. The wheat weighed 108 bushels per 100 measured bushels, and the com realized 500 dry, and no cribbing. A great many of our farmers do not realize *he value of fertilizers, especially clover and a rotation of orops. Hundreds of acres of land have lost their fertility by the the raising of oom year after year, and if, as a result, the owners come out behind at the end of the year it is because * luck is against them.” If farmers would sow clover with their wheat each year and turn it under for the next crop their crops would soqn be doubled. In experimenting with clover I have brought the yield from 16 bushels of wheat per acre to 43% bushels, and have had an average of 34 bushels per acre on 70 acres. Dashes of red appear everywhere in the toilet, fro "the plumes on the tjoouet to the “clocks’’ of black silk hop«.