The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-21
OTHER GRAIN MARKETS.
GRAIN GOSSIP.

Gossip by private wire to c. H. F. Smith
& Co.. st. Paul, members Of New York
Antwerp unchanged; Paris flour, January
30 higher; May 80 higher; wheat unchanged.
Berlin II higher than opening.
Liverpool cable: Spot wheat quiet and I'D
lower; corn quiet; future wheat quiet and
I'd lower: corn steady, Nd lower. London
Cargoes on passage. wheat and corn dull;
American wheat parcels. partly, 80 lower.
English country markets, partly, cd lower;
French steady. Mark Lane wheat quiet Ber-
lin fiat lower.
At San Francisco the Australian demand
was renewed, and later there was talk of
loo, 900 blu taken at Chicago direct for Liver
pool
Primary receipts, $4,000 bu; shipments,
Ia, 900 bu shipments of -four 900 bbls.
wheat.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. Jan 20.-Flour-Receipts, 49,,
903 bbls: exports, ITO bbls; dull and easier,
especially for spring patents. Rye flour dull.
Buckwheat flour quiet. Buckwheat dull. Corn
meal steady. Rye steady. Barley higher.
Barley malt dull Wheat-Receipts, rs 900 blu;
exports, 104 100 blu; spot dull; No. l hard,
seize; option S opened steady on foreign buy
ing; eased off and ruled dull during the day,
Influenced by narrow speculation, small clear
ances and bearish crop news. finally rallied
sharply on covering inspired by the reported
cash demand in the Southwest. and closed
12Q &c higher; No. red January, closed
at S9Ac; May, 857s@S6 9-16c; closing at S614c.
Corn-Receipts, 80 $50 Blu; exports "A, O9S bu;
spot quiet; No. 2, 2S3sc; options opened steady,
and ruled higher on big clearances and un-
favorable weather West, closing at 1s@Ac net
advance; January closed at 2SSsc; May, 800
SO1sc closing at 301sc. Oots-Receipts, 81 200
bu; spot dull; No. 2, 22Ac; options dull, and
barely steady, closing unchanged; January
closed at 221sc; May closed at 2212c.
LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 20.-Wheat- Steady; de-
mand poor; closed quiet, with near positions
A@13d lower and distant positions Ad lower;
business about equally distributed; January,
May, IS 912d. Corn-Spot quiet; American
mixed, new, Is 9Ad; futures opened steady,
with near and distant positions I'd lower,
closed steady with February unchanged and
other months I'd lower; business heaviest on
middle positions; January, February and
March, Is Cd; April, Is 9Hd; March, Is 9Hd.
F!our-Steady; demand poor; st. Louis fancy
winter IS Sd
CROP MOVEMENT
The following table gives the receipts of
wheat at the four principal spring wheat
markets from the beginning Of the crop year.
Aug. l, 1896, to date, and for the same time
year ago:
This Crop. Last Crop.
Bushels. Bushels.
Minneapolis .4O,231,5 $50 52,246, 400
Milwaukee ...... 5, 424, 249 6,210 693
Duluth ....31, 722, 1893 Sc, 1864, 333
chicago ........ ...... 13, 24 1927 IL, $50, sos
The following table gives the receipts of
wheat at the four principal winter wheat
markets from the beginning of the crop
movement, July l, 1896, to date, and for the
same time year ago:
This Crop. Last Crop
Bushels. Bushels
Toledo .......... 6,106,565 Asst, 587
st. Louis ............. 9,630,542 1886 286
Detroit ...... ........ 2745,5S9 sos. S33
Kansas City ...... 5,556,6O0 6224 200
MILWAUKEE.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 2O-Flour-Weak.
Wheat-Irregular, weak; No. spring, 77c
No. northern, Sic; May, SO1Ac Corn
Steady; No. 8, zoe. Oats-Dull and lower; No.
white, 184@19Ac. Barley-Very dull; No.
2, 331ac; sample, 25Q 33ac. Rye-Quiet and
steady; No. 1, 39c. Professionalism; pork
$3.50; lard, 1896. Receipts-Flour II 900 Blu :
wheat, 5000 bu; barley 900 blu. Shipments
-Four, $4,000 bbls; wheat, 1000 blu; barley,
81, 600 blu.
ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 0.-Wheat-Higher; No.
Ere, red, cash, elevator. S61Ac bid; track, 900
9013c; May, $500 bid. CONFIRM; No. g.
cash, 20Ac; January, 1890; May, 22asc; July,
2312c bid. Oats-Steady; No. 2 cash, lie bid !;
May, 1870 bid. Rye-Dull, 34c Barley
Nominal, 10000. Flaxseed-Lower, 731hc
aLaadrd-Higher; prime steam, $3.e21a; choice,