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‘115, compared to 140 in October. | Wheat | Exports From United States Are: \ Likely to Increase, Due to Closing of Water Routes NO NEED TO RUSH STOCK Moderate Seasonal Rise on Hogs Expected; Flax Indi- {4 cations Seem Good wheat amounte ishels, which was the largest crop | the world ever produced. wo| There has ‘been a slackening of ee and from southeastern | ao | Europe and a slackening of marketing A “"\in Europe, the United States ‘and | ) Canada. It seems likely that experts of wheat from the United Siates will increase upon the closing of the Great | kes. The large visible supply of wheat may tend to hold prices down omewhat. wz | ‘The carryover from last year indi- (3 ;eates a present world supply of about «0 | 360,000,000 bushels less than at the! “o/same time a year ago. Prices have {advanced in the winter from 25 to 32 avtcents per bushel. North Dakota wheat prices were only about 22 per cent above the pre-war level, Novem- ber 15. N By Rex E. Willard, Farn conomist, | { 1 North Dakota Agricultural College. Business Situation | In spite of wild fluctuations in the} stock market the fundamental condi- |; tions of industry in the United State: are sound. The principal manufac: turing establishments made larger profits in the third quarter of 1929 than in the same period in 1928 and p+ nearly all industries made a greater | | profit in the t nine months of | 1929 than in the same period in 1928. Some importance has been attached wien a fo the reduction in the automobile business in the last few weeks. How- VEATHER ever, in the first nine months of 1929. ,)f.'"", ‘ eoraeey alt the total production of automobiles | t+ and trucks in the United States ex- |, cteded the 4,358,000 that were pro. duced in all of 1928. A consequent reduction from this high peak may | well be expected and this reduction in the automobile business accounts | high ever 1 almost entirely for the falling off in| iiGrning. with steel production, which is one of the | xt Miles Ci most important indexes of business | hy, ynusually conditions in the United States. Some attention has been given to, the money stringency; this is now be- | ' ing relieved by reduction in the large | pia Lake: demand for money for speculation. |to the eastern Rocky mountain s Interest rates are being reduced and | \\!!! oe eee ee this should be of some benefit to ag- | riculture throughout the country. There has been no inflation of com- ' Modity prices. ‘ General Price Level Farm prices in general in the Unit- ed States declined from an index of 141 in September to 140 in Octobe: In North Dakota farm prices dropped. one point from September to October when they were at an index of 140. *, Mich. Snow clea Flax The United States crop of flax amounts to slightly more than 16,000,- | 000 bushels, compared with 19,000,000 | bushels last year and a 10-year aver- | > age of 23,000,000 bushels. In North | Dakota the crop was somewhat less than 7,000,000 in 1929, compared with a 10-year average of 10,000,000. | There is little in sight to indicate |a reduction in the consumption of very Unseed oil in this country. except the statex high price that now prevails and some < |indication of increasing substitutions a for this commodity. Flax prices in North Dakota are about 72 per cent ‘| above the pre-war level, and no great , decrease in price is to be expected unless indications should point to an abnormally large crop in South , America, Swect Clover and Alfalfa © Due to an increase of about 15 per o,, cent in the sweet clover crop of this *4- year compared to 1928, prices are about a cent a pound lower. Farmers in North Dakota have been receiving around 4 to 414 cents. The alfalfa seed crop for 1929 was about 25 per cent greater for the United States. Grimm seed is now being sold by farmers in North Da-/| kota at 27 to 28 cents. .Certified | F . With the exception of September this | Grimm seed js expected to retail ‘next | level was the highest of the year for 2 mane ~~ spring at from 33 to 38 cents accord | this state. Prices paid by farmers for one commodity. ing to sate, commodities bought dropped from an ‘The ratio of prices received by Beef Cattle index of 156 to 155. October 15. There farmers to prices paid by farmers in It seems likely that supplies of beef aas been no marked change in any North Dakota is approximately 87 per cattle will be a little gri during , t the sta n.. 1.6 feet f CPRENOR cent compared to 90 per cent in Sep- | November and. December this oak Hogs ] tember and 86 per cent in August.| with little change in demand. No Market receipts for hogs are likely! Slight seasonal advance in the price shipped out to 2 states in age holdings of butter will prevent | North Dakota farm products dropped | great change in general price level ts jin price to an index of 134 Novembet expected. Shipments of stockers and feeders from 12 principal markets in- Indications are that the bottom has|.were 5 per cent larger than in the, been approximately reached in the ;same period a year ago, but for the prices seem likely throughout 5 ‘1 {wheat market so far as price is con-| months of July to October these ship- winter and late spring. . "icerned and there is likelihood that jments were 12‘per cent less than a ‘ ow Hikh lust hvices will advance somewhat in the|Year ago. There is nothing in the per cent larger than that of a year ’ \next few weeks. The world: crop is Situation to justify feeders in rushing ago. "' about 530,000,000 bushels short of last |Stock to market. Cattle prices in mor »|¥ear, but this is only ightly below | North’ Dakota, November 15, were hogs in North Dakota was slightly OF) the | five-year average Last | about 69 per cent above pre-war level. 4 “0 shipments of wheat from South | « less than $8 per hundred Nov. 15. eedless Suffering ‘The next time a headache makes you stay at home— Or some other ache or pain pre- vents your keeping an engagement— Remember Bayer Aspirin! For there is scarcely any pain it cannot relieve, and relieve promptly. These tablets give real relief, or millions would not continue to take them. They are quite harmless, or the medical profession would not constantly prescribe them. Den’t be a martyr to unnecessary pain. To colds that might so For your own protection, buy the easily be checked; to neuritis, neu- genuine. Bayer is safe. It’s ‘salways talgin; to those pains peculiar to the same. 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