Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — WHEAT AND CORN. [ARTICLE]

WHEAT AND CORN.

Spring Wheat Crop la Said to Be Not Very Good in Point of Quality. The "quality of the new spring crop has been a mooted question. For this reason a Chicago paper has obtained from official sources the inspection returns at Minneapolis, the largest spring wheat receiving point, and presents it as-a very fair index to the character of the last crop. It is a good crop in quantity, but the figures are not. especially encouraging from a quality standpoint. are the re-" turns for the last, three months, flowing the number of car Iqads received and the way they are graded: ’ > Grades— .- Arrg. —Bcpt. Oct. Totals. No. 1 northern.2,2ll 7.188 11.235 20,634 No. 1 hard.... 72 153 80 305 Nc. o 1,(509 3,796 4,993 6,998 No. 3 207 670 2,906 3.783 Rejected ....: 1,008 3.717 2,087 6,812 No grade 75 251 208 534 Winter ....... 17 3 20 \ 40 Total cars. .5.199 15.778 21,529 39,106 Thus it will be seen that only a fraction of ovt r .">(» per cent, received at Minneapolis in three-mouths has been of a quality ‘good enough to grade as really merchantable —as contract.fi The above represents about 25,(XX),000 bushels of. wheat. Tne new corn crop is beginning to move —is moving, in fact—hence increasing receipts at all markets are promised. N.i matter what the price is a certain amount is sure to be marketed as soon as ready. Taxes have to be paid and debts contracted during the growing of the crop must be met. It would appear that big crop prices already prevail, and for this reason it would not seem possible for values to sink much, if any. lower. In lowa, Kan sas and Nebraska the producer will get very little for his crop, 12>/i@lsc per bu, perhaps. Oats are not being marketed so freely lately, perhaps on. account of the very low price. Provisions have shown ’a little more life, but are still very uninteresting.