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SENTINEL SUPPLEMENT
OREGON, MISSOURI.
PRICES OF MISSOURI FARM PRODUCTS
Obtained by the Grower on the First of Each Month from June, 1889, to September, 1891.
The following table of prices received by the producer for farm products daring the past three years w.13 compiled from the representative
counties of all sections of the State, space not permitting publication of all, and will be found of interest; showing the average price paid in each of
the counties for the several years, a3 well a3 the State average for the period, and also permitting a comparison of the prices paid during the several
months of each year :
ADAIR.
FARMERS' INSTITUTES.
Beginning with the Institute at Fulton, Mo., November 9, 10 and 11
of which meeting a partial report is published herewith, the Stat Rnl
of Agriculture continued the series in Southeast Misjouri up to November
.w, miming meetings in eighteen counties. At nearly all the places vis
ited a good degree of interest was manifested by the farmers in the meet
ings, and we trust much good was done iu stimulating thought concerning
better methods of farming. The work will be continued through Decem
ber, January and February. The December and January appointments
are as follows :
i
Corn Wheat Oats Potatoes. Beeves Sheep. Lanbs Swine
No. 2 So. 2 No.2 Per For Slaughter For Slaa;hter For Slaughter For Slaughter
i Vet BubeL Per BaheL Per liu-hel. Bushel. Per 100 Ltrt. Per 100 Lbs. Per 100 Lbs. Per 100 Lbi.
Butter.
Average ot j Eees
Farm Dairy Per Dozen.
Per Lb. I
Wool,
Medium.
Per Lb.
Date.
January
Kei.rsary
March
April
Slay
June
July
AU11
f ;iTrm!nT
OcIi.Ikt
November ....
December
Avenue f-ir the year..
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341
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31
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15
10
111
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0 20
13:3
13 32
14 S2H
15 41
163S
1545
1SV6
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I j ' ' I l I . j ,
40 40 TO 3 CO 3K).... 8 GO' STsj I S 10 2(J....ilS 17 ... 19 ;ir '24 Ui
40 40 60.. .. 3 SO 4 10 3 Mr 19 1 3 25 2 Jul ..IS 20 ....15 15 "" ! i'A
Zi 40 60 .... 3 60 4 25 S 75 3 CO f. 30 3 01. ...13 16 ....12 'll """ '6
40 40 65 3K 4 25 1 W SCO' 3 50 3 li ...il6 1G . 11 lJ , " '23
40 SO TO 4 0) 4 SO 3 75' 3 50 4 CO N 3 40: 4 10 . 13 IJ 10 10 "i-5 "
35 1 25 1 40 1 25 4 10 4 25 4 CO 3 CO 3 70 3 30 4 50 4 50 4 25 3 40 3 50 4 2511 10 10 !10 10 10 !'"",24
3d C5 65 60) 4 85 4 30 4 40 3 CO! 4 OK, 3 20 4 25 4 75 4 40 3 SO 3 75 4 2010 9 9 8 9 9 22 23 '"l.
SO 40 75 25 4 15 4 20 4 00 3 251 3 K, 3 25 4 25l 4 50 4 Oil 3 SO 3 40 5 Oil 10 9 10 8 8 10 ,u" 23 ?s "'
23 85 70 20 4 00 4 30 4 17 3 15 3 75 3 00 4 00 4 251 3 75 3 15 8 30 4 C5 12 10 10 1 9 9 10 21 !a isu
.... 30 60 4 00 4 00 3 40 3 65 1.... 3 10 3 401 12'i 12 ... 10 10 23 !24
... SO 60 3 80 3 75 3 25! 3 60 3 25 3 30' 15 115 .. l2 121 ."" 23 03 '
... SS 70 365 365 325 3 SO 3 20 SCO' ,I7t 15 ....'ifi lisi 23 25 "
33 72 56 Bl 3 99 8 90 4 23 3 361 3 70! 3 44 4 25 4 54 4 03 8 30 3 43' 3 81 12.c!l3.3 13.3 10 11 12 ' 23 -1 i
NODAWAY.
January IE 43'.... 6S 80 .... 20 35 45 1 00 3 00 3 J5 3 00 2 75! i 1 3 10 2 95 ... 14 IS L...'l2 10
February 19 50 ... 67 82 .... 20 37 SO 1 00 3 00 3 25 3 001 3 00 3 20 3 I5; . . II 1S 1....U3 11 ,
March 20 55.... 65 85 .... 22 40 60 1 25 SCO 4 00 .... 3 Oft 3 25 3 40 4 00 ... 'H 17 tl-1 12 .
April 21 SO... CO 86.... 25 42 75 1 25L 3 25 4 00 3 50 3 25 1 I.... 3.15 4 25. ... 15 15 15 12 .. . j
Jlav 22 45.... 68 87 .... 25 40 70 1 10 . 3 25! 4 00 3 .Vlj 3 25 3 35 4 10 ...15 13 ....15 12 a
Jutie 30 25 40 70 70 W 2525 35 40' CO 1 00, 2 75 3 25 3 25 3 00 3 Ml 3 S5l 3(0 3 40' 4 Oil 10 15 12 10 12 12 ,17 "..
July. 50 25 42 65 70 K8 20 25 30 30 60 W 2 75' 3 00, 3 25 3 CO) 3 25' JM j i 3 10 3 40 3 ! 10 12 ,12 ( 111 I2W ...1
Aucnt SO 35 SO CO 74 70 1S 30 40 85 60 50 2 75' 2 50; 3 50 2 75 2 01 4 01 1 3 .TO 3 10 4 Nl'll) 10 II , 7 1 S 12 ... ,
Septemlier 80 36 SO 58 75 60 1S'30 30 SO 55 SO 2 75 2 75( 3 ITi 2 75 2 75j 4 00 ' 3 40 3 fti1 4 CT. 10 '10 1.0 '7 '8 InWl....' .
October 25 1 37.... CO 73 .... 1581 .... 30 75 2 75 2 50 .... 2 50 2 50 ! 3 15! 2!l'.. .11 13 .. S , S
November. 20 40' ... 05 75.... 1632 .... 85' 60 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 00l j I 3 Ul! 2 S.V 12 115 I.. 8 '9 '.
December IS 40,.... CT.' 60 .... 1S:33 .. 40 1 00 2 50 3 00 2 75 2 50! i 3 OOj 2 60' 13 ,17 I ... 10 10 .,
AvcraKefor thevcar 20 28! 47' GJj 711 b3 18 2W4 80 SI1 67 92 2 68 2 92 3 49 S 73 2 62,' 3 3C 3 111 3 15 JfMI tj3.C 14 8 '11 12 il7 l!
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CXFZ GIRARDEAU.
Town. County.
Marshall Saline Dec.
Odessa LaFayctte I "
Independence Jackson j "
Harrisonville Cas3 i "
Warrensburg 'Johnson I "
Date.
Windsor.
Humansvillc
Wheatland ..
Henry.
Polk
Hickory
NOKTHEAST MISSOURI.
10,
11,
14,
15,
10,
17,
17,
19.
11.
ia.
15.
10.
17.
18.
18.
Laddonia Audrain Jan. IS,
Clarksviile Pike " 19
-now Florence Montgomery "
Macon Citv Macon "
Shelbina Shelby ! "
Monroe City Monroe "
Canton Lewis "
Memjihis Snothnd "
Queen City Schuyler "
Kirksville Adair "
20,
21,
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25,
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19.
21.
23.
20.
January
February
March
April
May
Juno.... ..
July
AUEUSt
September.....
October ...
November
December
Average for the year..
45 65 .... 6S 87 ... 30
40 55 .... 63 90 .... SO
40 65 ... 63 90 .... 30
40 65 ... 68 1 00 .... 30
45 60 .... 75 1 00 ... 40
SO CO 5 S3 95 40 40
CO 60 65 75 82 40 45
60 60 67 80 SO SV4S
50 60 67 60 33 35 43
50... 70 90... 30 47
60.... 70 90... 3051
60.. 6S 8-1 .. 30'57
47 53 63 73 81 3141
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15
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10
10
12
23
BARTON.
January
February
March
April
May
Jutie
July
August
September
October ....
November
December .
Average for the year..
50 ....
.. -iiO 45 30.
.. 125 4S 30
,...'25 45 30
.. 25 45 30
.. 30 45 40
3030 45 25 45
3030 45 25 60
2030 25 25 CO
2030 20 25 70
2030 25 75
2035 ... 25 601
0 35 .... 25 80
3 29 40 25 53'
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85
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65.
60
50
45
45
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1 75
1 10
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2 50
3 50
2 60
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2 75
3 01
3 Ol
3 00
2 50
2 50
3 00
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3 50,
3 25
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325
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3 75
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3
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3 7S
3 75
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3 40 10
8 50 10
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15
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January ...
February
April
May
June ...
July
August
September .
Octolier . ..... ........
November
December.. .............
Average for the year.
.... 23
.... 25
.... 25
25
.... 85
40' 85
40 35
35 50
25 SO
25 40
25 40
25 45
31 36
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8 00
3 501
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1 60
1 50
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2 50i
3 00
3 OOj
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2 0)1
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3 10
3 25
3 25
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3 25
3 25
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3 00'
3 00
3 00
8 00
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4 00
4 00
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3 66
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4 00
4 00
4 00
4 00
4 50
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BOONE.
January....
February
March ,
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Averase for the year. ...
Average for State......
251 60. .J TO: 9i) ... 20 40 ;
25j 45 .... 70 90 .... 20 40,
So' 45!... 75 W.... 20 40
SO 50.... M V .. 25 40'
85 60'.... 85 W.... 25 4')
35 55 75 85 1 00' 20 25 40 1 00
40 60 65 80, 75' 0 30 35 50
40 55 65 85 75 IS 30 25 25
40 60 65 90 75 15 S3 30 SO
40.... 65 90.... 15 35.... 35
45!.... 70' 8S.... 20 40.... 35
40.... 70 65,.... 0 35 .... 85
35 51 631 82! 66 18 28 37 44
85 60 37 80 64 27 29 40 42
35
35'
SI
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501
751
1 00
125
1 00
1 00
78
84
1 00
1 25!
1 25
1
2 00
1 00
60
60
108
71
2 60
2 00
2 00
: 25
2 00
2 00
200
S 11
2 4
2 00,
2 00
2 S5
2 75
2 75
2 75
2 75
2 75
2 75
2 75
2 60
2 56
2 76
3 25..
3 75 ..
3 75'..
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3 CO
2 71
2 60
3 23
3 18
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2 75
2 75
2 60
2 50
2 75
2 69
2 97
3 00
3 00,
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3 00,
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825
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4 75
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3 50,
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3 85'
3 75'
3 75,
3 66'
3 31,
5 25
4 75
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8 00
8 25
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3 75!
4 00
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3 621
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3 87 ...
3 K7...
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25 '25
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MISSOURI'S FRUIT CROP FOR 1891.
Levi Chubluck, Secretary Stale Board of Agriculture : '
In answer to your request, I submit the following report on the fruit
crop of the State for 1891 :
SMALL FRUITS.
Opening with a very wet season during the berry Beason, the supply
wna imnrecedentlv larce. and of course low prices wre the result. Not so
much. nerhanB. on account of the larce supply, hl because the wet weather
pjitisod them to be so soft that they would not bear handling well. Ofttimes
the strawberries would mold in twenty -four hours, and be unfit for use.
I suppose wc are obliged to work for les3 profit than formerly, and we
must be satisfied with it. Very many of our fruit growers made the berry
crop pay remarkably well, however, and they are inclined not to increase
the planting, but to grow better berries and get better prices.
I wish I might give you statistics on all points, but that is impossible ;
oiiflinA it to sav that the berrv crop ran up into minions ot aonars, anu
lpttor berries were never seen. I think wo should drop the softer varieties,
and grow firm, good shipping varieties, and no others. In many parts of
the State thev are preparing to can the surplus berry crop and thus relieve
the market. "Many huudreds of thousands of cans were put up last sum
mer and my prediction is that erelong we will stop this shipment of so
much canned lruit irom me rasi.
THE CHERRY CROr,
Especially the Duke and Morello varieties, were a very paying crop indeed,
and this very palatable fruit is coming into more general use, as it should.
Tlioro U scnrcelva hill top in all the State but can grow the Morello cherry
tr tnrrft.inn. and no farmer should be satisfied with the old Morello
cherry when he can just as easily have the E. Richmond Englis Morello,
Ostheim, etc
THE GRAPE CROP
Was very excellent, indeed, in all parts of the State where " rot ' did not
trouble the vines. The experiments of the Government in destroying the
fundus growth has been so well carried on by a Missourian that he writes :
" I have no fear now of the grape rot, for the sp Riving with the Bordeaux
mixture has completely eradicated every bit of rot from my vineyard. I
now can grow all varieties to perfection, and I say this positively, knowing
the success I have had the last three years in experimenting with the
mlXtThe grape crop now annnaliy amounts to many hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and the time is near 'at hand when every one can cat grapes,
and the best of grapes, too. I
THE PLUM CROP
Is a growing one also, and of the Wild Goose varieties we now have a num
ber which are proving valuable to the grower and the dealer.
The crop was a full one only in places, and not general. A late frost,
March 1, injured them very much in some localities.
THE PEAR CROP
and pear growing is confined to special locations. About St. Louis and
on the loess formation, they seem to be more at home than elsewhere in
the btate, and wherever they are grown they are a most proiitable crop
indeed. Pears, selling now from $5.00 to G.50 per barrel, are certainly an
incentive to the growers of this luscious fruit. Day- by day we are finding
choice locations for the pear where the dreaded blight seems to not do so
much damage.
The crop was a good one.
THE PEACH CROP
Was an extraordinary one, wherever there were good orchards left. In
many parts of the State peach growing i3 about given up, but in the State
of Missouri there are thousands of young trees bearing the finest peaches
that ever grew in the whole United States. The peach crop was a very
valuable one, and brought many hundreds of thousands o dollars to the
State.
TnE APPLE CROP
13 a good one on young orchards, and on orchards where they were not too
lull last vear. Growing rapidly in importance every vear, "it will not be
long before the apple crop will be worth more to the State than any other
one crop.
rnces, of course, will not be nigti tins year on account ot tne great
supply of other fruits ; yet I am sure good apples will bring 50 cents per
bushel, and not long ere thoy will be worth per barrel on board of the
cars at all our small towns.
One year ago I made the statement that "The fruit crop of that year
brought MO.000,000, and before the vear was out I had hundreds of people
on my side who were on the other side in the beginning.
The fruit crop this vear will bring mucli more than 910,000,000 to the
fruit growers of the State, and there never was a time when our fruit
growers were in as good spirits a3 now, or had as much money as now.
The fruit interests have grown at least io per cent, too last year, and
it will not be many years before Missouri's fruit crop will rival that of
any other State.
Correct planting, careful cultivation, judicious marketing, will give
profitable resultB every time. L. A. Goodman,
Westport, Mo. Secretary State Horticultural Society.
" 2S, 29, HO.
The Xorthwest Missouri series will be held in February, and tho places
anil dates will be announced later.
THE FULTON INSTITUTE.
The tenth annual series of Farmers' Institutes wa3 begun at Ful
ton, Mo., November 9, and was continued through the 10th and the fore
noon of the 11th. From the very complete report of the meeting, as pub
lished by the Fulton Sun, we condense the following:
At 7:30 in the evening an interested crowd assembled at the Court
House. Wc say interested because idle curiosity would not have caused
anyone to face the inclement weather, and those who turned out were amply
repaid for doing so.
The meeting was called to order by J. L. Erwin, President of the Mis
souri State Dairy Association, and Judge Wilkerson was chosen chairman
of the meeting. The Judge, after speaking of tho industries and resources of
Callaway County, warmly welcomed the members of the Board of Agricul
ture and visitor- to Fulton.
Dr. Porter, Dean of the Agricultural College, responded to Judge Wil
kerson's address of welcome. Among other things he said ho had heard of
the fame of Fulton, its beautiful location, its educational facilities and the
country by which it is surrouuded when ho lived in cold Minnesota. He
had been happily associated with a graduate of Westminster who sounded
the praises of our city. He thanked the Mayor for the welcome tendered
and hoped the visit would be mutually pleasant and profitable.
Mrs. Dugan, of Sedalia, who is known wherever the Jlural World cir
culates as one of its brightest women writers, read a fine paper. Her sub
ject was "Shall We Move With the World or be Crushed by Its Wheels?"
bhe treated her subject exhaustively and m a masterly manner. To be
appreciated, it should have been heard.
The second paper was read by Prof. Marx, of tho University, on
"Industrial Education." The Professor explained the industrial branch of
the University, how the boys were encouraged and taught, and exhibited
specimens of their work, showing what had been and wa3 being accom
plished. His ideas were the correct ones that there should be a direct
connection between the school-room and the work-shop; told of the
importance of training the mind to tho hand and the hand to the mind.
His explanations of how the industrial department was conducted gave all
the details of what a boy passed through, and exhibited specimens of work-
done by his class.
The results from work shown is evidence that the teachers will not be
disappointed in their expectations. It is not the intention of this branch
of the University to make finished mechanics of the students, but to
develop ideas. The use of tools is as necessary to tho farmer boy as is his
book learning. If a boy who has attended this branch desires to make a
mechanic when he leaves school, ho commences when the apprentice of
fifty years ago wa3 at the end of his third year. Mr. Marx's paper was
listened to with deep interest.
Tuesday's session of the Institute wa3 devoted to roads and road-mak
ing, with talks on other industries interspersed.
Prof. Phillips read a paper on Highway Bridges. Dr. Porter dis
cussed the paper on tho construction of culverts.
Judge Mcllvaue spoke of public roads and their condition.
T. B. Terry was glad that some parts of the State were awakening to
the importance of good roads, and roads that cost $2,000 a mile were a
paying investment.
Mr. Blake, of tho Rural World, told of the improvements made in the
last ten years. All this was brought about by brainy men devising road
laws and inducing tho legislature to oiact them. Missouri will follow suit
and be benefited.
F. A. Hunter thought the only way to get good roads was to get new
laws. Lands adjoining rock roads in Callaway had sold at an advance of
ten dollars in twelve months.
J. D. Jolly commended tho contract system and favored building if
onlv a few miles at a time.
Mr. Drury, of Illinois, lives in a country famous for bad roads, and
thought roads should be made wide with good drainage.
Dr. Porter commended tho point made by Mr. Jolly in that money
spent on roads should be in tho hands of a commission. Boone County
wa3 wise m building rock roads toward competing points. Our young peo
ple on the farm were anxious to get away, to go to a town where they could
walk on sidewalks and look nice. Good roads in the country is the
remedy for the discomfort of farm life.
Prof. Phillips answered the question as to how the Boone County roads
were constructed. He was certain the business men of Fulton would con
tribute their part toward rock roads; it was to their interest to do so.
Mr. Bell wants a law that causes the peoplo who are benefited most to
bear most of the burden.
Mr. Erwin is always ready with road talk, and his ideas are good ones.
He thought roads should be made wide.
At the afternoon session Hon. N. D. Thurmond delivered an address
on the road law of our State. Tho County Court can onlv annronriato
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riav.at the lonrt Itotiv iimr. in ineeimi,i-. ,
pin! emimv I Holt r.ire..iiil. i-Il Hie lame, or ' ' "d mwu.ioii awl i P'"'.''-.,.. ....
mi much tlierit n in iy l.c require.!. at public I i, ..t J r ., ,."t in
veii.li!.-. to the liljhrM bi.1.1. r lor cali l-i linnrt. j Sheriff of Holt i oimt. Mo.
Through to Sail Francisco. j than Jointf it.
bjtho American Protective Tanc lcssuc. ns
a iiatrlotlc cttlrtn It Is jour ilntr to place there
jnt .luiiwnwii"': ... . ,
-f Rpn. Bor.l F. Butler, eivinr i wl" een" VliKr "