MAKKET PEICE. 



THE market price of Indian corn per bushel is to 

 many farmers, and might well be to all, a matter of 

 comparative indifference. Every judicious cultivator 

 understands that, as a general rule, it is against his 

 interest, and in most cases a blind and mistaken poli- 

 cy, to send his corn to a market town to be converted 

 into money at the current quotations. There are, of 

 course, exceptions to this, as to all general rules. 

 There are times when the market price rises to a level 

 that justifies the husbandman in turning some portion 

 of his crop into ready cash. There are also emergen- 

 cies that occasionally arise in the experience of farm- 

 ers when it becomes expedient or necessary to realize 

 prompt returns for their corn crop or a part of it, even 

 though it be at a sacrifice. 



Such cases, however, are but necessary evils, and 

 under good management will very rarely occur. The 

 true and obvious policy of the prudent farmer is to 

 feed out his corn on his own premises, thus saving the 

 expense of transportation, and returning to his soil 



