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Show Sixty-Five Cent Wheat. The low price of wheat and the improbability improb-ability of an improvement in it will force Western farmed to cast about for a better mving crop, says the St. Loms Eepubh-S Eepubh-S It is clear .they have lost, the i advantage ad-vantage of the Liverpool market. Cheap Indian wheat is cX'SSh in such large quantities that : the tsrmsri no longer clre for American wheat Thev will take it, if forced upon, at Sy cents in Liverpool, but this means wahnnt. sixtv-five cents to the Western farnier-and with a avenge rT twelve bushels per acre, sucn f nrice does not pay bim for his trouble. Wheatra?mgwas i losing business in Jmnois TSt year. The whote crop was onlv 8.300,000 bushels, or 5,000,000 less Sn the State needed for its own people, or. it took over 1,000,000 acres to yield Shta Soi crop of 8 300,000 acres-eigh bushSV acre- lS teSSJ loots E"V Urvfek?, with an immense part of" he suglus $ T885 and a portion even t Sar o? 1884 still unsold, means, of o tb b1I lower prices, when they are 3 So 'low torgfve thefarmer aprofit. |