St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-14

lowing are about the closing quotations for the
week: stockers sold at $3.2504. 10; feeders
S404.25; stock calves $3.50 to SIS per head.
Range cattle may be quoted at So 50@450 for
Texans; S40515 for Wyomings, Colorados and
Montanas; range tailings, including cows and
bulls, $3.25@13.60.
There was rather an unsatisfactory hog mar
ket to-day. The receipts were so light that but
few Of the packers yentured out,
and there was but q light shipping demand,
while spectators were doing little or nothing
few choice heavy that suited the shipping
orders on hand, sold shade higher but all other
sorts were dull and dragging, closing from 10 to
25c lower. In fact, there was no established
price for the rough, common sorts and, II Delng
Saturday, statesmen were anxious to make clear
ance, so they accepted what they could get
Sales were at 81. 5O04 rs for skips and grassers,
$5.10&5.75 for common light, and S6O6.15 for
the best assorted light Rough and common
packing sorts sold at S. 2505.75, and the best
heavy at S6063O.
Crosby IL Co., reviewing the market say
''Though the business of the past week cannot
be called either large or active, yet it shows a
considerable improvement over the preceding
one. Provisions remain very quiet. Corn has
ceased to be the favorite, and wheat has again
claimed most of the attention. The most notice
able thing this week was the fact that rejected
wheat and rejected corn sold at the same price
on Wednesday, viz: SOC per bushel, but wheat IS
60 pounds and corn only Sc pounds per bushel,
the wheat usually sold below the price of corn.
The movement of grain at the interior shows a
slight increase of wheat and decrease in corn
Duluth having the largest gain, which is ac-
counted for by the fact that most of the Mime
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greater bulk of the wheat supply OF the north
west was consequently diverted to Duluth. The
receipts at the seaboard are almost identcally
the same as last week. but
the exports are somewhat larger.
Wheat remains in the came anomalous condition
that it has been in for some months past, yet
why it does TO is not so easily told. The harvest
is ended, the threshing advanced and although
receipts are only moderate for the season, yet
prices continue to decline. Were ware
houses full or were there no foreign demand, we
could easily understand it, but visible supply
is 5000, coo bushels less than last year and we
have exported nearly 49, 900, 900 bushels OF wheat
and flour in the past two months and the first
half of September adds over 5000, 900, more to
| the list, the total exports Of -four
! and wheat this year from the Atlantic
seabord being 22S1S, 7S4 bushels against 10, 49,
| 793 bushels last year, showing the increase this
! year over the corresponding time last year to be
! 6,0S5, 991 bushels, and yet while we are pouring
out our surplus at the above rate, we find from
! the government returns that the imports OF
wheat and flour into the Unitpd Kingdom in the
same two months was only 81, 504, SOS bushels
and their own farmers deliveries were 4,912,000
bushels giving them total supply of 20, sos, 06e
| against an estimated consumption of 32,64O, 900
| bushels. They actually reduced their stocks in
store 6, 1873, 432 bushels in the past two months,
and if we consider in this connection that, not
withstanding large shipments, the amount
! afoat for Europe was reduced 9, 400, 900 bushels
in the past week, it will be seen that although
! the harvests of the world are all gathered, we
! are the only country that seems to be in any
hurry to part with their wheat. We have all
along insisted that while the world had good
crops they were not excessive, and later returns
confirm this opinion. The agricultural bureau has
| published its final estimate and says the crops
cannot vary much from 500. 100000 bushels, and
! the agent OF the department at London cables as
the result of careful consideration that 1.-The
| importing countries of Europe will require goo,
O00,000 above their production to carry them to
another harvest, and of this Great Britain will
! require at least one-haH." The Mark Lane En-
press says in completing their crop returns, ave
fear it will be found that what is not over thirty
bushels per acre. Surprising that to be the
yield, and we are convinced it is outside
estimate, as the threshing machine has disap-
pointed many growers, the 2,676,47 acres which
the agricultural returns show to be the of
wheat will produce So 900, 900 bushels. Deduct
ing from this 5000, 900 bushels for seed, we have
remaining 72,00O,00O bushels for making into
flour, leaving US to import at least 12S,000,000
bushels for the years consumption.