, 1876-03-06

- 6CAE ESTIMATES.
10 fhs Editor " 7hs Chicago Trlbu1,d:
Rock ISLAND, 01arel. 4-You Layo published
in tie commercial columns Of your paper 40
many estimates tu regard to tue future of wheat
that l feol Induced 10 glye you tho following
'toma, Which may 10 Of interest to many OF your
fcadc'u: In locking oyor tho daily Chicago
hoard o} 1'raie Circular, find that tho ro-
ceipts Of wheat In Chicago from tho 1st Of Sep
seoiber last TO thu 29th u't. hnve boon yo1y near
TO l2booooo bushels. a1.l tho receipts of flour
from tho 10Th Ut beptemhcr 10 the same tttno
o1ual TO 60o3,0 0o9 bunleis Counting barrel Of
flour equal to five bushels Of vbnst) The receipts
Of wheat IN Milwaukee, according to tbo samo
market reports, were. FROM tue 1o.h Of Boptcu,-
het 70 tho 2ol itt, ,6oQ.o hushcls {this docs
33.0oo.0u bushels. Anido Of thit, jarpo Of Of
wheat and lour hss gone forward during Tho
same titne ria Duluth, aud around Chicago via
Joliet Iooria, otc., hs well a. flour received in
does not figure in tho receipts ii Chicago.
hare no means OF getting At the accurate anloiint
OF sucl, stipments, but should think that 7,oO0,-
900 bushels would not bo Too high ail cssinsts.
Which, Mlach would mste i grand total Of 49, ooa
amount Of the last crop OF spring wheat, I Will
take the Agricultural bureau Ia Washington
as authority, according to which 27o, ,ooo,oo9
nuaIsls sre o. "a average crop Of wheat OF
wheat. This will giro gi.506.000 buBhets, from
Which IL per cent should DO deducted for tho
delicioucY in quality II not III quantity, or
l3,ooo. QUO buahols, Ehlch feavos bl.6U3, 600
rect have no doubt, because 1 tind that, from
the 1st Of September to the Goth ult., Chicago
aloue haa receivcd atout 1900 carloads OF ro-
1ectcd and unmescl,antable wheat, which fe
worth litt!o OF nnt!Iiug for ouElug, not to speak
of No. 8. from wlich the yield ol tlour IL ou,y
Light. DeBidca. ii, tliiuoiB aud pnrEB Of lows,
whore the farmers havo raised poor wheat onIy,
aud who're they viii uae tho sasno for aecd
To raae %, 500 900 buahols Of wheat requires, at
IL bushels per acre. 1850 900 acres, aud ID, ,o,-
600 bushels Of seed wlaoas. Tho consump,.re
demand Of tl!o spsin9..,wheas growing s:atoa /
o sasnss nF Set 1S.t ~ It's sGl'sen rlc II v
nnd, would leass available for export
(deancsing from 81, ,ooo) i7,oo9,oo0 bushels
5ooo,ooo bushels, All q vi,iel viii Ds neetisd by
the mllts throughout, tue Northwest for tho re-
ruMulug lstIf crop year.
When coasidot that tho recoipta Of wheat
snd Hour IN =. M'iwAukee and CChlesgo combinsd
have beon not Lat from 4.0o0,G QUO bushels for
each Of tho last two months, and ha7o not
| revealed Tho stocks u sight, which means that
nost OF this "n'ount has been consumed, and
that the consnmp1'9n ~ spring wheat bS tho Will
doubt. constantly tncrsaso. 1t IL my opinion tl1t
wo will have little Or nou,ing to spare, apd ~ 1t
IL slated TINT tue United Kingdom viii require
ret about 25,ou0,0 900 busIals Of foreign vheat,
! higher prras mutt prevail
fAese llaa hcon, anl told, i. n1innesotn. Tis-
conain aud Hortharu Iowa littis:{ auy Old what
hold over, owinE TO tic maGnl'coAt crop prps.
pocta In those regions, and bafce concluding /
will Jnt mention that now spsneuheat has ar
rived In Chicago already bofoso .,o 1At Of Sop-
tnmbor. ~ Tho market reports will show.
I should like to henr comments Oh suY csti-
na.ea. Worry respectfully, fnAla-DEAlEu.