348 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July, 
Wheat—Corn—Oats—Pork—Lard. 
BY ORANGE JUDD. 
THE MARKET STILL VARIABLE AND UNSETTLED. 
During a month past the speculative fraternity 
have had the opportunity they always desire, 
viz., much uncertainty as to the growing grain 
crops, and as to the supply of last year’s products 
still in the hands of farmers. This element of un¬ 
certainty the shrewder, longer-headed and longer- 
purse operators delight in, as it enables them to 
fleece the “lambs,” of whom there is ever an un¬ 
failing supply, just as there are of buyers of lottery 
tickets where they are allowed to be sold. By skil¬ 
fully manipulating reports, sent in by their own 
“ reliable ” agents scattered through the leading 
grain centers, they are able to run the price of 
wheat, for example, down to $1.08 per bushel, 
when in rush a lot of sellers for a decline. The 
very next day, perhaps, the price is run up to $1.14 
@ $1.15, and kept there until the “ shorts ” are 
cleaned out, and then down go rates again, to 
tempt in a fresh lot of victims. 
Chicago being the chief receiving point of both 
grain and provisions, and the head center of specu¬ 
lation, we give the quotations at that point. The 
difference in prices in New York depend mainly 
upon the cost of transfer, though somewhat affect¬ 
ed from day to day by the range of local specula¬ 
tion, and the daily demand for export. On June 
6th, July Wheat and Corn are just 10 cents per 
bushel higher in New York than in Chicago ; July 
Oats 6i cents higher; July Pork 85 cents per bbl. 
higher ; July Lard 23 cents per 100 lbs. lower. 
RANGE OF PRICES IN CHICAGO. 
Month of 
Delivery. 
Wheat, bu. 
June. 
July. 
Aui;. 
Sept. 
Corn, bit... 
June. 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Oats, bu ... 
June. 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Pork, bbl... 
June. 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Lard, 100 lbs 
June. 
July . 
Aug. 
Sept... 
$1.08 
.62 
18.35 
18.50 
11.40 
11.50 
$1.13 
1.14 
1.16 
$1.12 
1.14 
1.17 
1.17 
.56 
.57 
.59 
.60 
.41 
.42 
.42 
.85 
$1.08 $1.15 
1.09 1.17 
1.11 1.15 
1.12 
$1.09 
1.10 
1.12 
1.13 
.55 
.56 
.58 
.59 
.41 
.42 
.41 
.35 
$1.15 
1.17 
1.15 
1.17 
.57 
.59 
.60 
.60 
.39 
.39 
.31 
.33 
e e 
j?Jj_ 
$1.15 $1.11 
1.17 1.18 
1.15 1.14 
1.15 1.15 
.55 
.56 
.56 
.56 
.41 
.40 
.34 
20.15 20.07 19.65 19.60 19.12 19.60 19.60 18.80 
20.35 20.12 19.10 19.80 19.17 19.S0 19.80 19.00 
20.45 20.32 19.30 19.95 19.27 19.95 19.95 19.12 
., 20.5O;i9.45 19.70 19.45 20.00 20.l0il9.27 
12.10 11.87 11.75 11.82 11.65 11.82 11.82 11.60 
12.12 11.97 11.70 11.92 11.70 11.92 11.92 11.65 
12.05 12.07 11.82 11.85 11.80,11.85 11.85 11 15 
.. 12.07111.72 11.82 11.65 11.80 11.80 11.10 
For May delivery, Wheaton Jan. 2d was $1.00; Corn for 
May delivery was 52c. Jan. 1st, and 58c. Feb. 2; Pork for 
Feb. delivery was $17.55 per bb!., or $1.45 less than now; and 
Lard $10.05, or $1.62 per 100 lbs. less than now. 
From Chicago to Liverpool, the present cost of 
carrying a bushel of wheat is reduced to 15 @ 17 
cents, a distance of over 5,000 miles, if taken by 
water from Chicago to Buffalo, and 4,600 miles if 
by railway, calling the ocean route about 3,600 
miles from New York to Liverpool. Wheat is now 
being shipped across the Atlantic in steamers for 
2id., or hardly 5 cents a bushel. So wheat costing 
$1.10 in Chicago, can be laid down in Liverpool for 
$1.25 @ $1.27 per bushel. This low rate has a ten¬ 
dency to largely increase the consumption of wheat 
in England, and accounts in part for a gain in ex¬ 
ports of thirty-six million bushels, noted below. 
If the speculators will keep their hands off, the 
foreign demand will be likely to drain off our sur¬ 
plus pretty closely, and leave a fair field for the 
incoming crop. 
BREADSTUFFS AND PROVISIONS SENT ABROAD. 
The following figures are interesting, as showing 
how much more Wheat and Corn we have been 
able to spare, and the people over the ocean to buy 
of us for the nine months ending June 2,1883, than 
in the corresponding period a year before. These 
are the exports from the Atlantic ports only : 
Flour—bbls. Wheat—bu. Corn—bu. 
1882-3.7,127,895 57,080,364 32,954,610 
1881-2.4,177,127 36,561,571 24,379,811 
21,518,793 
60 per cent. 
Excess, 1882.. .2,950,768 
Increase_70 per cent. 
Reckoning the flour at 1 barrel for 5 bushels of . 
8,564,749 
35 per cent. 
wheat, the exports of wheat from the Atlantic ports 
equal 93,720,139 bushels for the past nine months, 
against 57,447,206 in the same time last year, a gain 
of 36,272,933 bushels, or over 63 per cent.. .Of Hog 
'Products, the exports from New York, Boston, 
Portland, Montreal, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and 
New Orleans, from Nov. 1 to June 2d, were : 
1881-2 1882-3. 
Pork—lbs. 34,926,000 28,942,401 
Bacon -lbs. . ..276,792,853 265,798,619 
Lard—lbs.158,380,248 144,896,831 
470,099,101 439,631,850 
a decrease of over 30,000,000 lbs. This is the re¬ 
sult of facts previously alluded to in the American 
Agriculturist, namely, that owing to the small com 
crop of 1881, farmers crowded off all the hogs to 
market that were in any sort of condition, and this 
left far too few swine in the country to consume 
the better corn crop of 1882, and a smaller supply 
of pork, etc., for export. We can again enforce 
the lesson that farmers, especially in the corn¬ 
growing regions, should multiply their swine as 
rapidly as possible. 
the outlook. 
The second week of June brings more favorable 
reports for both wheat and corn. The frequent 
showers during May have delayed corn planting 
somewhat, and retarded the growth of wheat, but 
there has not been a sufficient number of consecu¬ 
tive days of cold rains to materially injure the 
plants generally. In fact, there has been a stronger 
growtli of stem and leaf, and with warm growing 
weather hereafter, there will be great improvement 
in the prospects of the wheat yield. The better 
weather now prevailing is affecting the market 
rates, wheat having declined 5 cents a bushel be¬ 
tween June 1st and 6th. Our latest advices from 
farmers in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,Dakota, 
Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas are all more hopeful 
than at any time before for months past. But with 
the cheapened freights, and the opening of new 
trunk railway lines from the seaboard to the Ear 
West, increasing the competition, we may feel 
pretty certain that Europe will take all the wheat 
we wish to dispose of for a year or two, at prices 
that will remunerate our producers. As before ex¬ 
plained, every reduction of price abroad has a 
strong tendency to increase the consumption. 
A fair increased acreage of com has already been 
got into the ground, and planting is still being 
pushed in many places, as well as replanting where 
the first seed failed. It is too soon to judge of the 
prospective growth; but farmers are so hopeful, 
that those who have been carrying large stocks of 
old corn, are now sending it to market, having 
given up the hope of a further advance. 
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