St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-15

lowing are about the closing quotations for the
week: Stockers sold at S3.2504 10; feeders
SiG4.25; stock calves $3.50 to Sl8 per head.
Range cattle may be quoted at So b004.So for
Texans; S4O515 for Wyomings, Colorados and
Montanas; range tailings, including cows and
bulls, SS.2503.60.
There was rather an unsatisfactory hog mar
ket to-day. The receipts were 30 light that but
few of the packers ventured 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
sorta were dull and dragging, closing from 10 10
Csc lower. In fact there was no established
price for the rough, common sorts and, II oehg
Saturday, statesmen were anxious to mako clear
ance, so they accepted what they could get.
Sales were at 81 50614.75 for skips and grassers,
S5.10@5.75 for common light, and S6@6.15 for
the best assorted light. Rough and common
packing sorts sold at S5.25O5.75, and the best
heavy at S60o.30.
Crosby s. Co., reviewing the market, say:
Though the business of the past week cannot
be called either large or active, yet it shows
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 So pounds per bushel,
the wheat usually sold below the price OF corn.
The movement of grain at the interior shows o
slight increase of wheat and decrease In corn.
Duluth having the largest gain, which is &C.
counted for by the fact that most OF tho Mlnne-
apolis mills being shut down for repairs and the
greater bulk OF the wheat supply OF the north
west was consequently diverted to Duluth. The
receipts at the seaboard almost identically
the snma az last week, but
the exports are somewhat larger.
Wheat remains In the Same anomalous condition
that it has been in for some months past, yet
why 1t does TO is not so easily told. The harvest
is ended, the threshing advanced and aithougn
receipts are only moderate for the season, yet
prices continue to decline. Were our ware
houses full or were there no foreign demand, we
could easily understand it, but visible supply
| is 100000 bushels less than last year and we
have exported nearly 20. 600 bushels OF wheat
and flour in the past two months and the first
half of September adds over 100000. more to
the list, the total exports of flour
and wheat this year from the Atlantic
793 bushels last year, showing the increase this
year over the corresponding time last year to be
6,Os5, 1891 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, ,565 bushels
and thor own farmers deliveries wore 4,912,O 900
bushels giving them total supply of &c, sos, o6S;
| mi OI
bushels. They actually reduced thSir stocks in
store 6, 1SS, 432 bushels in the past two months,
and if We consider in this connection that, not
withstanding our large shipments, the amount
afoat for Europe was reduced 2,4O0, 600 bushels
in the past week, it will be seen that although
| tho 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, 600, 900 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 $780,
! 100000 above their production to carry them to
another harvest, and Of this Great Britain will
require at least ne-half.'' The Mark Lane Er-
press says in completing their crop returns, "We
fear it viii be found that what IL not thirty
bushels per acre. Surprising that to be the
yield, and we are convinced It ID an outside
estimate, as the threshing machine has disap-
pointed many growers, the 2,o76, AIT acres which
the agricultural returns show to be the of
wheat will produce sO,OOO,OOO bushels. Deduct
ing from this 5000 900 bushels for seed, we have
remaining az. 100000 bushels for making into
-four, leaving Us to import at least 12s,000,0OO
bushels for the years consumption.