Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — CORN AND HOGS. [ARTICLE]

CORN AND HOGS.

A Poor Crop of the Former and tile Latter Lean. ® [New York Telegram.] John T. Lester, the well-known grain and provision speculator, who arrived from Chicago, expresses an unconditional belief in higher prices for corn, oats and pork produce. He says that the corn is so scarce and so poor in quality that the farmers all over the country are afraid of keeping their hogs until properly fattened. They deal out to the animals all the soft corn they have, and send them as quickly as possible to market. The consequence is that the quality of hogs is very poor, some of them nftt beirig fiCYdianything except bacon. He does not see any reason for the price of wheat to go np, but predicts that a very lively advance wfll take place in oats and even in rye when the actual condition of the corn crop is thoroughly understood.