Show what of tho the crops and prices mr orange judd writes as follow follows on crop and prices in the Ante american rican agriculturist for october no other question is so puzzling to the mass of farmers fan ners as 03 to decide whether to sell at once the tile wheat corn oats etc which they can spare or to hold on in the hope of higher prices price q to no other subject owe wo we EO to much I thought as to nu nn cubat to form a fair e nato of the probable future range of prices that we may oner offer trustworthy suggestions tio ils to our ur readers but never before have we been more at sea real on this question than during tho tile first fint week of september of the present Y acar car formerly the range of prices was largely governed by tile actual aggregate yield hero here and abroad the relative supply and demand but during two years past ft a class of speculators far more numerous and of much greater financial strength than ever before have un to manipulate the grain and provision markets the buying and gelling selling on margins have been carried to enormous fi figures guress tho the aggregate sales of corn wheat oats pork bacon and lard have many times exceeded the entire product of the country cliques have been formed to buy up the entire available supply and put the prices up or down as best best suited their speculations from time to time by such means the great rna mass of consumers have been compelled to pay much higher higher prices for their daily food than should have prevailed and the Da natural tural exports have been retarded and greatly curtailed and much injury done to the entire ciaire bu business atless of the count country rv As some parties have already bought or sold largely for deli delivery verv or settlement set t lement of margins borall the ta o later months in ill this year it is the interest of these parties barties on the hiie hand band to diligently y circulate every possible disastrous report as to the weather and the condition of the growing crop every rain nun storm and every fall of the thermometer has been a to them and telegraphed far and wide anything that would sustain prices has been money in in their rockets on oil the other hand a large class having contracted to deliver or pay a margin in on any aby product at a stated price are re doing their utmost to create the impression that there is to be an unprecedented yield under such influences it is scarcely to be wons won derad at that from day to day there come conic estimates of a yield of corn varying all the way from to bushels and of wheat from to bushels the present pro probability ba is that the yield will be a 11 mean between these various high and low estimates if no long con linued storms corno come on to destroy much grain still in the shock in ta the e field there seems a fair probability of our having a total wheat yield of f bushels a larger crop than ever grown before of the bushels of corn grown in 1879 according to the census reports orl Illin illinois vis produced bushels Eus bushels hels iowa bushels missouri bushels indiana bushels ohi ohio and kansas bushels a total for these six states of bushels or nearly two thirds 65 per cent of the antim crop in th this i s coun connection action we give the report of the agricultural bureau on tho the condition of the grawi growing n corn for august in 1879 and 1882 g as follows representing ingan an average crop 1879 1882 1682 Illi illinois hois 59 iowa 70 missouri 91 indiana 83 78 ohio 89 80 77 kansas this shows a decided decrease of crop for these leading states but a part art of it will be made up by a larger arger acreage and by the favorable weather the outlook today to day is that there will be an abundance abunda uce of comparatively cheap food in all parts of our own country and that tho the borci foreign n demand will be sufficient to ab absorb orb the tile surplus provided always that mere speculation does not maintain too high prices probably probable good or bad weather as it aft affects acts the ripening corn and wheat still out in the tile field will decide whether prices continue at present figures f agures or rise or fall a little jud judging ing from present indi indications rations we ell shall 11 look for no material change from current rates though the favorable we weather ather still prevailing pre vailini is is tending to lower values the only advice we can give to many i inquirers rl air is that it is eu on the whole b best t to sell when ready and avoid risk of storage and of lower rates it hardly pays pays the average producer to speculate ate v upon the future especially when the shrewdest observers among amog those thoo tho o who have immense investments still at stake are themselves in A t ver very y uncertain state of mind as to the outlook |