The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-27
GRAIN AND BREADsTUFFs.

Owing to light receipts and heavy demands
from abroad there has been small advance
In both corn and oats In this city. New corn
n W brings seycnty-nve cents and old corn
eighty cents. Oat- sold on the streets to-day for
ilty-thrce cents. There was no wheat offered
on the market No receipts We're recorded by
rail, and no shipments in nny direction although
there arc numerous orders here 10 be filled, and
which win 30 forward tomorrow or the day af-
ter Prices arr rs per revised quotations:
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
., WHEAT-9j@l 70, us per grade; Nicaragua,
Csc ON street
CoRs-In ear, new, 75c.; old. sjc shelled, slOo.
OATs--In bulk, bOd53c.
RYE-Scarce. We quote per bushel so
BARLEY-SCarce. Good demand. &C n Csc.
BnAS-We quote at mills, 81 2oSi IS; in store,
sacks, 81 40 to 81 so,
IS Xxxx so 10 o EXTRA 8 81 IS ''i0w' XXX
Imported; Xxx, per cwL q so; xxx, So TO-
xxx 81 40: choice family SO Gu fancy, 81 so.
Corn meal, per bushcl, 81 10
Graham flour. per hundred. 81 90.
In Chicago to-day both wheat and corn de-
clined. Wheat for May delivery sold in the
morning ut sl8l and In the evening at 81 2gA,
hye'eighths OF cent under the day
s sIicIs and FOR close: Sp"G at 80 opened cent at
and threo-eighths lower yesterday Corn hr
May sold ON first call AT 70 IL aud on last call at
=, cent aud ilyccighlhs under last evening.
For June delivery u opened ut II "a and closed
Nv ." ~ u NNHl anu bNibN lllNhul
before
The Abilene Reporter says tits estimated that
2lO,OOO bushels of wheat will be raised In Conan.
che county this year.
Notwithstanding the want Of rain last year,
Mr. Malone In Rec county, made 900 bushels
ofcorn on forty-hve acres of land,
Wheat about Abilene Is now considered out of
danger. Tho acreage Is about i0l per cent over
last year and farmers estimate their prospective
yield ut nearly forty bush, Is per acre
1--WE make about l. 900 bbls flour year"
says the San Francisco journal of Commerce,
most of which is consumed here and in the
facihc states surrounding us, such MS Nevada,
Arizona, Idaho, Montana aud Colorado Last
year we exported nearly 100000 bbls leaving
about 100000 bbls. for consumption nj home
and In the territories. As our population In
creasos we shall consume Il correspondingly
| larger proportion of flour on this coast The
extension of the Southern Pacific and the open
| ing up of connections with Texas insureS us u
u market with Mexico and the gulf generally for
| our hour. which viii doubtless be quite impor-
| tant though II remains for the future 10 say
what the extent of that shall be-
inc iillsburys, of Minneapolis, Minnesota,
have Just completed another flour mill with Il
capacity of 1000 bushels of wheat an hour.
The capacity OF their mills Is 10 600 600 bushels
year, and Washburn's mills, near by, have al
most the same capacity These mills have u
| capacity which the northwest cannot supply NJ
| present There are no flour mills equal to those
at Minneapolis in the world, those OF Bued-
Pesth, Hungary, standing next
| The figures showing the expectation of bread
| Sums from this country for the month of March
| last indicate In very expressive manner how
much the country loses by the partial failure of
| last years harvest They show n falling oil In
| those expectations Of nearly onc.half as COM
pared with the parallel statement for the cores
ponding month in lSSi, In March II year ago
the Total expectation of bfcadslulis amounted In
round numbers 10 s21.UOO,WO. whereas, this year
II Is little more thnn half as much A curious
feature of the current statement Is the rcmarka-
bile increase II shows In the shipments from San
Francisco. They were valued ut u little over
900 In March. lSSl, whereas last month
~ 'n,otcd up total of just four times that
amount.