The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-03

but is now 1sd higher; second, dull; half
were: May wheat, 60ssc; corn, 2S9sc; oats,
| 1eAc; pork 1902; lard $3.50; ribs, $3.50.
The Kansas state crop report, in its final
crop bulletin, makes the winter wheat yield
n, 16S, 1866 blu, II, 641, 900 blu more than 1895.
The yield per acre Is s1a bu. The corn crop
is 221 49, 900 blu, 20 000.0 900 bu more than 1885,
The yield per acre is 270Sb blu.
Clearances, four ports, S76 blu wheat, 81, :
275 bbls -four, equal in wheat to 33S, 100 blu.
BeTlin-Wheat, closing, steady; December,
Nm higher; May, Am higher.
We have private information by mail and
cable that France will have to buy wheat for
the first six months OF next year, and that
we will have steady inquiries for American
wheat. One cargo to that direction has been
closed today.
WHEAT IN RUSSIA.
1t is notorious fact that reports of the
crop OF Russia are as much at variance as
the crops of this country are. The official or
government figures are less relied upon than
the commercial figures by all who are care
fully Informed. There is poor agreement in
| either acreage or production per acre, al
though the latter is less in error than the
acreage is. The last acreage report in this
country. upon which production is based is
the census report of the acreage of 1889, while
the Russian officials acreage was taken in
1886, or three years earlier than ours. OF
course there are guesses by interested people
that the acreage increase annually, or de-
crease annually, as compared with former
periods, but such calculations are as likely
to make decrease, when there is an in
crease, they are to be on the right SIDE
The Washington bureau seems to have a
system of hedging against errors by expand
ing or contracting the acreage harvested to
MT the necessities of each crop when 1T comes
to the final summing up the totals in De-
cember.
The Russian "Oficar' is, if possible, less
reliable than ours. Then too, the govern
ment there becomes a sort of silent partner
IN the crop, it loans money upon it and
dictates the time to sell to some extent by
| calling in the loans. 1t is upon such reckon
Ing that wheat goes up and upon which wheat
goes down. There need be no surprise that
the end Of each year brings disappointment
to people who make too much of such figures
for it is to owners interests to underestimate,
and great governments are no less unseltish
than the average Of the people that comprise
it. If the stories told as facts about the
smallness of our supply at harvest time had
been true we would not only not have any
wheat now to export but be actually short
for home use. Instead of that we have more
yet to spare without trenching upon the guam
/ ity needed to meet home wants.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK Dec 2-Flour-Receipts 25,-
700 bbls; exports 1926 bbls; market dull
and lower to SELL winter straights, $3.50
AGO; Minnesota patents, s4.60@4.95. Southern
! flour easy. Rye -four dull. Buckwheat -four
| dull. Buckwheat quiet Cornmeal inactive
Rye nominal. Barley dull. Barley malt dull
| Wheat-Receipts, 209, 200 bu; spot weaker; No.
1 hard, 947sc; options opened up on unex-
pectedly lighter Liverpool cables but were
promptly weakened by abundant liquidation,
prospects of larger spring wheat receipts
lower late cables and small export inquiry;
| closed at 3s@Bc net decline; No. 2 red, May,
! S71s@S93sc, closed S77sc; December. $3.50
! S0Ac, closed S9Bc Corn-Receipts, 276,300 bu
exports, 1895 bu; spot weaker; No. 2, 29c
options opened steady but were weak all day
under dull trading and favorable weather
! closing 1s@Nc net lower. May 80 1-16@321sc,
! closed 321sc; December closed 29c. Oats
/ pnn 0fNtc hr.. "A H1Y.
easy; No. 2, 23c; options inactive and heavy,
closed 5s@a4c lower; May closed 253sc; De-
cember, 225sq2Sc, closed 225sc.
LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. Wheat spot firm; de-
mand poor; No. red spring, Is; No. Cali
fornia, Is sgd Futures opened steady, with
near and distant positions Id lower; closed
firm with near positions 1@1Ad lower and
distant positions 112d lower; business about
equally distributed; December, January, Feb
ruary and March, IS 11Ad April nominal
May. IS III Corn-Spot quiet; American
mixed, new, S. Futures opened quiet with
near and distant positions I'D lower; closed
| quiet with near and distant positions 1A@34d
| lower; business about equally distributed; De-
cember, IS; January, February and March,
Is 11Ad; April nominal; May. Is 11kd. Flour
| IS Sd. The stock of breadstuffs and pro-
visions in Liverpool are observation-disclosures
$4,000 sacks; wheat, 1,096 600 centas corn,
! 7O9,O0O centals. Provisions Bacon, $500 boxes;
hams, 5000 boxes; shoulders 500 boxes; lard
5000 tierces; cheese, leo, 700 boxes; butter
$500 packages.
| MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE, Dec Flour less firm
Wheat 1rmer; No. spring soc; No. north
ern, sac; May, S212c. Corn steady; No. g.
24c: Oats easy; No. white, 20G21c; No. 8
white, 1S15@191sc Barley dull; No. 2, 34G
sample, 24@34c. Rye lower; No /, 41c Pro
| visions weaker; pork, $3.50; lard 1918. Re-
| ce.pts-Flour, 2S,000 bbls; wheat $4,000 bu
barley $4,000 blu. Shipments Flour 20 900
bbls; wheat, 1900 bu; barley, 5000 blu.
ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2.-Wheat-No. 2 red
cash, s1@92c; No. hard, cash, Sic bid; May
! 917s@92c. Corn-No 2 cash, 21@211sc; Deem
Der, 21c; May, 23@c Oats lower; No. cash,
Pork, jobbing, $7.2O@7.45. Lard, prime steam
$3.671z; choice, $5S212. Lead, $2.721A@3. 80
Spelter, $4.O5.