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stored for feeding. About as much more fod- 

 der will be pastured in the fields ; and we shall 

 have no end of second-growth peavines for 

 pasturage. Suppose we throw in that pasture 

 part; we'd have to guess at its money value, 

 anyway. Suppose we count only the harvested 

 crops. 



Most of the farmers around us have been 

 used to selling so soon as they could manage 

 it after harvest. Usually they need the money ; 

 but, if they weren't impelled by necessity to 

 sell, they haven't enough storage room for put- 

 ting by anything beyond their own farm needs. 



If we intended to sell what we've grown, we 

 should hold until December 1 or later when 

 the depression of harvest time is past and re- 

 covery of prices is under way. Judging from 

 the past, about December 1 our wheat will be 

 worth in the local markets approximately 

 ninety cents a bushel, our oats forty cents, our 

 corn seventy cents, our hay fifteen dollars a 

 ton, and our straw five or six dollars. There 

 isn't a market price on the corn fodder, 

 as no one hereabouts has made a com- 

 modity of it. What is saved is usually fed on 

 the farms. Sometimes it figures in trades be- 

 tween neighbors, but never in the open market. 



