The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-27
OTHER GRAIN MARKETS.
GRAIN GOSSIP.

Gossip by private wire to c. H. F. Smith
6 Co., St. Paul. members Of New York stock
exchange and Chicago board Of trade:
Modern Miller says: Domestic -four markets
are generally dull, only few of the South
eastern markets report brisk demand at
firm prices. The cornmeal and corn flour
trade Is better; the demand generally is
good and prices are strong. Nearly all mar
ketS are paying good prices for bran. West
ern correspondents predict some increase in
the winter wheat market soon on account of
the near approach of tax paying time Ii
is not believed, however, that the winter
wheat reserves in first hands are heavy. The
demand for good milling corn is improving.
Four ports cleared 104, SA bu wheat: Is. 46S
bbls flour, equal to ia, 400 blu wheat
Closing board cables: Antwerp, unchanged
lower; May, 40 lower; wheat, February, 20
lower; May, Is lower Berlin, u lower than
opening.
Liverpool cable: Spot wheat, quiet; corn.
lower. Corn, quiet, Il lower. London: Car
goes on passage, wheat, steadier; corn,
steady. American wheat parcels to Cd
higher. Country markets, English steady:
French, quiet. Mark Lane wheat dull Ber-
lin, u higher.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. Fob. 6-Flour-Receipts. 15.-
600 bbls; exports, TO- 1875 bbls; Influenced by the
heaviness in wheat. easier on spring patents
i've. Rye -four quiet. Buckwheat flour firm.
Buckwheat steady Cornmeal quiet. Rye
% Duet Barley quiet; 49, Barley malt quiet;
bu; spot quiet; No. 1 hard S7%c options
opened weak. following lower cables, rallied
sharply on bad crop news from the southwest,
but broke again in the late session under
liquidation and disappointing cash demand,
closing 1A@%c net decline; No. red May
795R@S0 7-16c, closed at 79%c. Corn-Receipts,
12S'61S b1; exports, 91,Oo3 bu; spot steady;
opened easier. owing to weak cables. rallied
on covering: but again declined with wheat,
and closed A@,se net lower; May 29 $3.50
22S7sc,- closed at 29asc. Oats-Receipts, "a, S05
bu; spot dull; No. 2, 211ac; options duh and
easier, closing 1sc net lower; May, 1880
213sc, closed 21%c.
LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, Feb 2S.-Wheat-spot quiet:
demand poor; No. 2 red spring IS 21ad No.
1 California, 6s SID; futures opened steady
with near positions, I'd lower and distant
positions I'D lower; further weakened and
closed steady with near positions Id lower
about equally distributed; February, IS I'D:
March, IS 1!@d; May. 6s 3Ad; July, 6s Sd.
Corn-Spot, dull; American mixed new, Is Sd;
futures opened quiet with near positions I'd
lower and distant positions unchanged to I'd
lower; business about equally distributed
February, rs Cd; March, Is Cd; April, Is SID;
Steady; demand poor; st. Louis fancy win
ter. IS Sd.
CROP MOVEMENT.
market Record)
The following tables gives the receipts of
wheat at the four principal spring wheat
markets from the beginning OF the cron
year, Aug. /, 1896, TO date, and for the same
time year ago:
This Crop. Last Crop
Bushels. Bushels
Minneapolis go. A,372,170 1852, $50
Milwaukee ...... ...... 6,948 914 6,S78 $50
Duluth .......... 33,1b8,452 AZ, 1851, 51S
chicago ...... .......... 1881, 800 1854, 020
Total 49,. $500. 81, 392. 23S 125, AZ, 772
Thu following table gives the receir4s Of
wheat AZ tho four rrinrinoJ vtpto~ ,,,h -