Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1874 — Do not be Deceived. [ARTICLE]

Do not be Deceived.

The newspapers all over the country are reporting large and fine crops of wheat. This may be a dodge of the grain buyers to lower the price when the crop begins to flow into market, enabling them to buy it in cheap and sell at a good advance when the true amount of the crop becomes known. From numerous inquiries we have made of farmers from all parts of the State, we arc satisfied that the yield will not be more than an average in Indiana, and many good judges think it will be considerably less. We hear of many fields which were expected to yield twenty bushels to the acre two weeks ago, that have been attacked by the chinch bug and the rust, and will fall short of the expected amount by ten or twelve bushels. This is the case in many of our best wheat growing sections. Isis to be presumed that the same enemies to the crop havo been at work in other parts of the country, and if so, the crop will fall considerably below the average instead of going above it, as the grain buyers would have us believe. While we do not expect that wheat will bring a high price this we do believe, it . farmers are not in too great haste to sell and force the crop upon the market, that it will bring a fair paying -return. — Indiana Funner.