The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 23, 1917, Page 19

| WHEAT | The pope's proposals for peace hit the wheat market hard on Tuesday, but scarcely harder than announce- ment by the United States government that future trading must cease Sep- tember 1. The September.future is the only survivor in wheat gambling, and this went begging most of last week. Traders are closing out their contracts as rapidly as possible, and preparing to throw their gambling energies into the corn and oats markets when wheat is finally denied them. Canada announced that future trad- ing must cease August 31. The Chic- ago board of trade closes wheat futures on August 25, and after September 1, the only wheat trading in North Amer- jca will be the actual buying of grain for grinding into flour, or for ship- ment abroad. Canada last week fixed a price of $2.40 per bushel for No. 1 wheat up to the close of this month. This price will be paid to all holders of warehouse re- cveipts who have grain stored in pub- lic elevators at Port Arthur of Fort William by that time. What subse- quent prices will be is only to be guess- ed at, A price has not been fixed for United States wheat. Millers’ organs are boosting strong for big slashes in cash wheat and predicting that the Hoover food administration will not exceed $2 per bushel for the No. 1 grades when it establishes a price. Very little of the new crop is going te market, a much smaller portion than last year. Wheat is generally reported of excel- lent quality, and farmers are appar- ently waiting as anxiously as the grain dealers to know what the prices will be. At Minneapolis September future prices declined five to 12 cents be- tween Monday and Friday; at Chic- ago 4 to 13 cents. September wheat at Minneapolis and Chicago was quot- ed as follows last week: September Wheat Minneapolis| _Chicago High| Low | High| Low August 13 ......|2.17 [2.08%12.15 [2.04 August 14 2.08 [2.04%%]2.05 [2.03% August 15 2.05 |2.0215]2.06 |[2.00 August 16 .04 12.03 ]2.00 |1.99% August 17 ......[2.05 [2.03 [2.01 |2.00 FLOUR _<L Little flour is being manufactured at Minneapolis, all the big mills waiting for the Hoover food administration to cut the present cash prices, so that the big exports of flour to Europe, manu- facturing for which will begin soon, will be based upon low wheat prices. Millers were pretty cocky last week about buying grain. They cut prices to suit themselves and told the wheat men to take it or leave it. They did not care to grind t;lour, as all the busi- ness for this country and Europe is coming to them with the certainty of death and taxes as soon as the food commission gets going. The -commis- sion has decreed that it will demand of the allies that they buy flour ground in the United States instead of raw wheat, and as the commission is to buy all the grain and flour for the allies it is in a position to dictate. Flour prices remained high last week, $12.30 to $12.50 in sacks at Minneapolis. Sales of flour increased over the corre- sponding week of last year, as each week has increased during the past month. Shipment of flour in barrels from Minneapolis, so far this week, with comparisons, follow: ) ‘Shipments This Wk. Last Wk. Yr. Ago Monday .... 37,016 . 58,670 58,049 Tuesday_.... 47,965 36,003 69,091 Wednesday.. 41,328 46,696 69,785 Thursday .. 38,252 32,919 69,213 Friday ..... 54,750 30,387 68,194 Totals ....219,311 204,675 804,331 Minnesota mill quotations in cotton macks, carload lots, delivered at south- erd Minnesota and Wisconsin and Iowa points, $12.50 to 12.70. Minneapolis £ o b quotations in cot- ton sacks:* First patents, $12.30 to /$12.50; seconds, $12.10 to 12.30; first clears, $11.20 to 11.70; pure rye, $9.50 to 9.70. i LIVESTOCK Hogs reached the highest point ever reached at South St. Paul last week touching $18, and the bulk of sales was between $16 and that point, center- ing around $16.50. The porker run was light and packers came right up with their prices. =i In cattle it was not a strong week, although somewhat better than some recent weeks, and particularly good on Monday. The run, as all the time of late, was made up of grassy stuff, and the choice lots, sorted from several car- loads resold around $10 for choice kilb» - Markets for Farmers ing. The bulk of the butcher steers cashed around $7.50 to $8.50, cows and heifers about $1 lower. In the stocker division the first part of the week opened briskly but demand fell off and there was a decline in prices paid to farmers. The week was in contrast to the week before, when feeder buying spurted up. Dairy cows were selling off at $65 to $95, most of them ranging below the midway spread. There was a decline in the number of veal calves received, and prices were down to $12 for tops, and bulk of the run going at $10 to $11. Sheep prices picked up encouragingly during the week and choice lambs topped at $15 the advance being regist- ered in a series of jumps of 25 cents each. . Quotations on livestock were as fol- lows: REPRESETATIVE SALES Butcher Steers No. Animals Av. Wt, Price 2 1105 8.26 12 850 7.25 1 1250 10.00 9 811 6.50 Butcher Cows and Heifers Ne. Animals Av. Wt Price 185 873 8.26 6 1060 7.50 2 1370 10.00 15 972 9.00 13 903 8.00 Hogs No. Animals Av. Wt. Price 0 253 17.25 15 183 17.00 1 195 16.75 50 169 15.76 1 273 17.50 Sheep Lambs 5 92 14.76 2% 9 82 11.00 & 19 60 11.50 i 1 120 10.00 e s S e MWD ST DER TR | . CORN | o — Fancy prices, which have been pre- valent for good milling and distilling corn for weeks, gave way last week, and the grain dropped from around $2.40 to $1.75 for No. 3 yellow. In com- parison with wheat prices, corn being usually rated at about three-fifths the price per bushel of wheat, that is still a good price. But: there is little to be had. There is a noticeable tendency on the part of those who want corn, to blame the farmers, and allege they are holding it back looking for better prices. This attitude was strengthened by extensive newspaper advertisements recently by the corn millers declaring that the dis- tillers, fearing an early shutdown in the manufacture of whiskey, were bidding the price of corn up to fabulous heights to make as much whiskey as possible before the governments cut them off. | BUTTER, EGGS, POTATOES A Dbetter tone prevailed throughout. the butter and potato market last week than the week before, prices strength- ening on butter and eggs at several centers, a@nd potato prices showing more firmness. Reports indicated that the quantity of butter and eggs in storage was less than a year ago at the same time. Potatoes were being marketed from all the early crop sections, and even northern grown were selling in large quantities on the Minneapolis and Chicago markets. Potatoes at Kansas City and Chicago gained in price, but in Baltimore, where the Virginia east- ern shore crop is now glutting the market, they dropped to 90 cents. In the following table potatoes are quoted by the bushel in Kansas Clity, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Balti- more, by the barrel in New York and Pittsburg, and by the hundredweight in San Francisco; butter by the pound and eggs by the dozen. The extremes in butter prices indi- cated are due to the fact that under- grades and renovated are quoted as well as cregmgery firsts and fancy grades; in emws, the prices range from the lowest grade of dirties to extra hennery whites. Butter ,Eggs and Potatoes Butter Eggs |Potatoes New York....|32%-4234118 -60 |3.50-3.25 Pittsburg ...[30 -41 |33 -37 (1.50-4.00 Kansas City..|3314-86 |25%-31%4(1.55-1.76 Minneapolis ...432 -38123 -84 1.00-;.25 Chicago ..... 38 -381%4[156 -3334(1.50-1.55 Dallas, Tex...[28 -87 2.40- .g{) Baltimore ...|34 -4014]|32 .33 .90-1.00 San Francigeo|42 -43 |36%45-42743.50-2.65 © @ MILLFEED S @ Red dog In 100-1b. sacks, $60 to 61; bran in 100-1b, sacks, $31 to 31.50; flour middlings in 100-1b. sacks, $50 to 52; standard middlings in 100-1b. sacks, $41.650 to $42.50. Receipts 216 tons; shipments £,467 tons. OolL MEAL ‘Hox ten, $54; half ton, $27.50. Leader Classified Deparitment ““THE FARMER’'S MARKET PLACE”’ This is the place to advertise your stock, farm machinery, chickens, eggs, produce for sale and auction sales; to make your wants known and have them supplied. Best results come from Leader Classified Ads. 2 Rates are 5 cents per word for the first time, and 4 cents per word for each pucceeding issue. Half rates to members of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League when advertising to sell their own products or supplying their own needs. All advertising for sale of lands carry the full rate. ALL CLASSIFIED ADS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE Farm Machinery ONE COMPLETE ADVANCE THRESH- ing rig, in fair shape, cheap. One Buf- falo Pitts rig and one Pitts separator in good shape., Call or write Mayville garm. or S. H. Taylor at Mayville, 33 B) aetNed 8 2o S A Cmi R AU i e B S N AT A BARGAIN, ONE REEVES 44X64 separator, feeder stacker, weigher an set of belts, Will take $300.00 if taken at once. Always under shed. Call at Lentz Bros. Imp. Co., Hansboro, N. D. 30X60 BIG 4 ENGINE, WITH STEER- ing device, 8-bottom Emerson plow, set extra shares, § breaker bottoms, ex- tra set shares, $1500. Three years old. Write Box 114, care Leader. FOR SALE—CASE RACINE 4-BOTTOM heavy duty automatic lift engine plow, good condition, McDowell Bros., Hal- statl, Minn. FOR SALE — COMPLETE THRESHING outfit as good as new. Ready to run. Cheap for quick sale. P. J. Regan, Tokio, N. D. A ONE-TON CORRUGATED ROLLER, also one six-horse subsurface packer. Fred Yule, Ray, N. D. Wanted WANTED — PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE, Socialists and Radicals to send a dime for two issues of the LABOR LEADER, a wide-awake educational, working- class weekly, edited by W. E. Reynolds. $1.00 a year and worth it. Address, Labor Leader, Duluth, Minn. WANTED—JULY 27, 1916 COPIES OF The Nonpartisan Leader. Papers must not be marked up or multilated. We will pay 10 cents per copy for the above jssue. Circulation Department, Non- partisan Leader, Fargo, N. D WANTED DEC. 1, 1917, A STOCK FARM or ranch with sheep or cattle. Can handle a large ranch and have had the experience. Write R. No. 4, Box 44, Carrington, N. D. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES FOR junk of all description. Ship your junk, auto tires and metals to M. A. Nafta- lin, 320 Front street, Fargo, N. D. - Miscellaneous Il S S S HIGH GRADE, PEDIGREED BELGIAN hares. Nice pets and greatest produc- ers of the best meat. Healthy robust fellows. Hare guide book free to each customer, Write for prices and free literature. Satisfaction guaranteed. A. A. Wavrik, Pisek, N. D. FIXTURES AND LEASE OF 33-ROOM rooming house. ISvery rcom _rented. Party leaving city. Address Herbert Hodge, 509 N. P. Ave., Fargo, N. D. Autos and Supplies NEW GEARS FOR ANY MAKE OF CAR. 10 per cent to 50 per cent less than manufacturers’ list. Send old gears for duplication. Illinois Gear Works, 105 W. Monroe St., Chicago, Ills. Lumber, Paints, Ete. LUMBER, MILLWORK, PAINTS, ETC., at wholesale prices shipped direct. Send us your list for estimate. Material ship- ped subject to inspection. No money with your order. L James Lumber Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Wanted—Farms WANTED TO HEAR FROM OWNER OF farm or fruit ranch for sale. O. O. ]lida.t son, 2945 Cedar avenue, Minneapo- s, Minn. WANTED—TO HEAR FROM OWNER of farm or unimproved land for sale. 0. K. Hawley, Baldwin, Wisconsin. Poultry BARRED ROCKS, SPRING COCKERELS $1.00 each, if taken before Oct. 1. Chris Bahr, Almont, N. D. COCKERELS AND SHOW PENS ROSE Comb Buff Leghorn, Columbian Wyan- dotte, Silver Laced Wyandotte. Cheap during August. L. Johannessohn, Bel- trami, Minn., Help Wanted WANTED — WIDOW TO COOK ON farm. No objection to one or two_chil- dren. Thos. Brisby, R. 2, Forbes, N. D. WESTERN RYEGRASS SEED TFOR sale. Field inspected by a U. S. Agri- cultural agent and pronounced free from quack and all noxious weeds. J. Charles Martin, Maxbass, N. D. Autos and Motorcycles AUTOMOBILES DIRECT TO YOU AT wholesale, write today for catalog and discount. Red River Motor Co., Dis- tributors, Wahpeton, N. D. For Sale or Exchange FOR SALE OR WILL TRADE TFOR stock, cattle or sheep, quarter section of land in South Dakcta. 218 Care Leader. Shorthorns Edgewood Stock Farm OFFERS FOR SALE 50 head of registered Shorthorn cows - and heifers. Also a few registered Shorthorn bulls. 3 Chesebro Smith, Prop. Reference: First Nat’l Bank of Fargo. PAGE NINETEEN Livestock HOLSTEINS FOR SALE—NINI: YOUNG cows bred to registered bull will freshen in fall. One registered bull 4 years old, Al breeding, gentle and 2 15-months= old bulls, 15-16 pure. Prices reasonable, Paul W, Schultz, Glen Ullen, N. D. 0. I. C. CHESTER WHITE HOGS—GOT the length and bone. Overland Ring- master strain bulls and heifers. White Plymouth Rock cockerels. If you need any in this line of stock, write to me. Carl R. Swanson, Marshall, Minn. BIG TYPE POLAND _ CHINAS, 60 spring pigs sired by Eddy Boy Smooth A Wonder, Big Orphan and Superior Long Wonder and from large sows. Satisfaction guaranteed. C. E. Sheldon, Sheyenne, N. D. FOR SALE—THREE BIG TYPE PO- land China sows. Bred to Dorr's Choice No. 270489_ for September farrow. Write for breeding and prices. Homestead Farm, Englevale, N. D.,, R. R. No: 1, Box 57. REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS, one 6 months, one 4 years old, short blocky _fellows, cherry red. Address Maier Bros., Highland Farm, R. 4, At- water, Minn. FOR SALE—AN A NO. 1 POLAND China boar, purebred April- farrow. Nicely marked, long broad and deep. Good bargain at $20.00. Geo. L. Carter, Rt. 2, Henning, Minn. MARES AND COLTS FOR SALE OR will trade for unencumbered land or cattle. Give complety description and price in first letter. M. Plin Beebe, Ipswich, S. D. REGISTERED BAY MORGAN STAL- lion, 5 years old, true to type. Come and see him or write. Miss Bertha llbllgner, Highland Farm, R. 4, Atwater, inn, FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—A PURE- bred Percheron stallion, fully guarane teed; or will trade for Holstein cattle, Prairie Park Farm, Bath, S. D. HORSES AND COLTS, TWO PAIRS, 3 vears in 'spring; six mares, 4 to 6 years, three of them have colts by side. Fred Yule, Ray, N. D BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. SPRING pigs of either sex. Pedigree furnished. Satisfaction guaranteed. Call or write, Hubert Zander, Sleepy Eye, Minn. CHESTER WHITE PIGS OF APRIL farrow, either sex, sired by two good boars. C. M. Herold, Stirum, N. D. REGISTERED DUROC SPRING PIGS of both sex. $15.00. G. T. Cameron, Loraine, N. D, Farms WANT TO RENT FOR TERM OF years, my 3 quarter section farm to capable married man on the half share plan, he to buy 1% interest in mares, cows and brood sows, also other equip- ment. Good water and buildings. Hay land and pasture on farm. Box 146, Egeland, N. D. 320 ACRES FARM FOR SALE, $25 AN acre. Two miles from town, good well with abundance of water. Might consid- er livery and feed barn in a good town as part payment. If interested ;/In% or call on Theo. Hinsrud, Hamlet, FOR SALE, TRADE OR RENT, SEV- eral improved and unimproved farmsg in Roseau county, Minnesota. 1 have just what you want. Write owner, T, B. HOLDAHL, Roseau, Minnesota. 160 RELINQUIS HMENT, $1500 IM- provements. 120 acres tillable, all easy irrigated. 3 creeks on good stock range., ]l;lric% $800.00. ¥d. Garland, Homepark, ont, HALTF SECTION FARM TIOR SALE two and one-half miles from count) ifi\?fi%’ M. B. Noble (owner), Hillsbora GOOD QUARTER SECTION, $66.00. EN tailed property East cause of selling Jacob A. Briggs, Wheatland, N. D. Position Wanted EXPERIENCED ENGINEER WANTS T take charge of steam engine for sea son at $8.00 per day, with coal, $10.0( Write " 0. C. Egeland, Hanley Fallt Minn. EAST SEEING BAERS According to the Boston Transcrip the effete Bast saw real bears whel Congressman J, M. Baer of this stat( arrived to take his seat in congress Down there they look upon it as an evidence of deplorable times when the farmers and residents of this state turn from the old machine parties and overwhelmingly elect the man of their choice to represent them in the nation- al halls of legislation where they havae not been adequately represented for a long time. It would seem that the people of this state have no fears of the future and they are more deeply interested in seeing justice and right prevail than are the munition factories and food speculators of the East, who live off the products of the soil of this greal commonwealths We are not worrying. Why shoul( they—if they are not guilty? It it always the galled jade that winces.~ NORTH DAKOTA CAPITAL, James town, N. D. Mention Leader when writing advertisert