The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-19

i us iibui DtlIIS All OIC. L Iltts
declined until in December when prime
per bushel, the year having begun with old
corn at 42643 cents There was little
change in prices for three months follow
| ing. after mich there was some appIecia-
| tion. beginning in March, and continuing,
With some interruption, until late in July,
| when the quotation was 43 cents. The av-
erage price, for the past year, for prime ear
com was 37.64 cents per busbel. in compar-
| ison with Abb cents In TIL. preceding year,
and with 81 cents in l86l-62, which is the
only year, in period OF eighteen years,
that presents low er average.
| The business in oals at this city during
the past year has in volume varied little
frorn the previ,ns year. The market was
well supplied and there was fair demand
at the prices which were very low. While
the receipts show a slight falling off the
shipments ha, e materially increased. The
aggregate receipts were 1898, ,5T2 bushels,
compared with ,467 0l0 in the previous
YEAR, and the shipments 305, ,307, in COM
parison with l4e452. TIE total movement,
including through ireights not embraced in
these figures, was in imports ,472 932 bush
els, compared witr /, ,596. 400 in 1877 IS. and
in exports 379,667 bushels in l878.19, in
comparison with 275 932. The commercial
wear opened with No. mixed oats quota
bic at 22@23 cents per bushel, and from
| this they varied very little for six months
following.
In March and later in the spring there
was considerable improvement, which sub
sequently became much more marked
under the influence of dry weather, which
threatened the destruction of the coming
rop. Late in Ma, oats had advanced tn
34@36 cents. These prices. however were
scarcely maintaiued, and especially after
tinely rains had dispeled the fears As to
the new crop there WAS much less strength
to the market The advance was slowly
lost, 81 that when new oats made their ap.
pearance they came in at prices moi much
greater than those which had ruled at the
corresponding period OF the previous year,
No. mixed selling at about % cents pei
bushel.
The average quotation for the year for
No. mixed oats was 26 SO cents per bush.
FL, certainly the lowest average since 1861
81, when it was 26.66 cents. The latter,
however, was for No l oats, so that it is
probable the past year presents the lowest
average for oats of the same grade in the
hist nv OF the hamber. The average FIR
1878 was 28.G6 cents. The information
as to the crop of 1879, az far as it has made
its appearance, has not been uniform. From
some districts the quality seems fair, while
from others the grain has an odor about
them that affects their value. All agree in
the belief that the crop never entirely re-
covered from he effects of t e dry weather
which preceded harvest, although the yield
at last turned out much better than was
anticipated.
| There was a good yield of rye in 1873
and our market has been well sup
piled. The receipts, with the exception OF
| 1856. have been the largest we have ever
had having been 4S9, 7SO bushels In 1877
7S they were 374637. The shipments have
been 1853, 3,S59, in comparison with .25OlS in
the previous year. The quality of the crop
of 1878 was only fair. Prices were very low.
and free fir III llsiderahle fluctuations
The higher prices, to which rye had been
pushed at the close of the preceding year,
were soon lost, No. 2 rye settling dawn t
about so cents, from which it did not vary
much during the winter. Under the stm-
ulation Of dry weather, and the conviction
that the low prices which had prevailed had
discouraged the growth of the grain, there
were better prices in the early summer
No. 2 rye advancing and reaching gu cents
in June.
This, however. was not maintained, for
prices thereafter shrank until tie improved
demand set in, which characterized the
close of the commercial year. The market
for new rye opened at about 54@55 cents,
though some sales had been made to arrive
at 56 cents, with a strong upward tendency,
based on an improved foreign demand, light
| La tc ,,f r., ,,rh Nov,
dstileries, and a generally improved tone
IT, the markets t all commodities. The
quality of the crop of 1879, as far as it has
made its appearance, is good, and this ap.
plies t. all the districts which are In any
way tributary to this city. The average
quotation for No 2 e, for the year, wa.
SO. rs cents per bushel, compared with Sc
cents in 1877 rs, 74.l5 in 1857. 744 in
1876, Il 05,S in 1S74-75. 929 in 1894
and 1913 in 1878. There has been n,
ear since 186l-62 when prices have ruled
so low.
The growth in the business in wheat II
Cincinnati, which was so marked in the
preceding year, has continued through the
past year, the receipts having been 1884
722 bushels. compared with 340S, lib in the
preceding year, and the shipments 3 383.
387, in comparison with S67 0S2 in 1S77-7S
OF these receipts in 1883, 3,179 ia
bushels came in the first tw and last two
mouths (including the last week in June
of the year, in comparison with 2,646, 004
for the corresponding period of lS77-7S.
and ,102, $50 in 1857. The receipts in
the last ten weeks of tie commercial wear
of 1879, comprising the new crop, SO
far us it had then moved, aggregated 2,457..
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