Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-06
Grnin Notes.

baltimore message yesterday morning
said: Other markets are all lower out thIs
market is higher than last night
A priyate Berlin cable says: Wheat oe-
clined 4 marks equal TO PIC per busneip.
Harvesting is progressing taNoIaoly IN
Austria-Hungary. The weather in erman
is warm and bright.
r. F. Paxton is back after a thirty days
trip among the wheat growers OF Kansas.
He says the crop is threshing out better
than expected and IL will be nearer oo,Ou,-
900 bushels than 100000
Bartlett & Frazier wired Harry c. Reed
yesterday: Think the break In wheat Is
only a natural reaction. There Is good ex-
port demand again to-day. Would Duy
wheat and think corn is low enough
Yesterdays cIearances for export at the
four Atlantic ports were 202. SIG bushels OF
wheat. 1895 packages Of -four. +4S,4S5 nush,
els OF corn and 6e.eS6 bushels OF oats: \ 9I nd
wheat and flour c~learances amount to Sz,Uo
bushels, and corn $500 bushels.
Lake lines are reported to be taking
grain and flour at 10 cents from Chlcago 70
New York. The Illinois Central rate OF 10
Orleans is partly responsible for the cut
rates the lake lines are making. Shipments
are unusually heavy.
The primary market receipts for yester-
day were gSe. 059 bushels Of wheat. against
561.0 go bushels a year ago. Shipments we're
SIG. 9e5 bushels: last year, 4l4.OO bushels.
Corn. receipts. Los. cas- bushels: a year ago,
al. 900 bushels. Shipments, 545, s11 bushels;
last year. $4,000 bushels.
Light scattered showers fell in all the
grain states Wednesday night Rain fell
yesterday morning at Dodge CITY; kSs.;
rainfall at Oklahoma was 0.3S of an inch.
and at Kansas City Ola. Showery conditions
continue in all the grain states. and there
is cool weather nearly everywhere.
A letter from Elmwood. Neb.. says: Corn
is badly damaged, probably as much as
one-third. About a third of the corn in Ne
braska is not vet tasseled, and a good deal
is not over three feet high. Reports sent
from Omaha that good rains fell all over
Nebraska Monday night are not true.
There was no rain here-only forty miles
from Omaha.
Yesterdays Cincinnati Price Current
says: Corn conditions are improved in vari-
Gus sections, and lowered in that portion
The general average Is not advanced. and
probably not lowered. Wheat indications
are unchanged. The oats yield is apparently
better than was calculated The wheat
movement is irregular. but charging.
With all the fine wheat one could desire,
yet the grain men here are having trouble.
the utter incompetency of the Kansas state
inspection department working much of an
unnecessary hardship on the trade. II is
intimated the inspectors have been selected
on account of their political influence in
stead of knowledge OF the different grades
Of grain and the nature of many of the
samples delivered to the grain men would
substantiate this charge. The Populistic
grain men Of Kansas who are being in
tured by this defective inspection should
see that Governor Leedy corrects the evil.
The Chicago Evening Post of Wednes-
day says: George French. who has so
successfully conducted the principal bull
line of wheat in the market during an ad-
vance OF 13 cents per bushel. said that he
had disposed yesterday and to-day Of all
the holdings for September of himself and
the party he represented. He did not care
to say precisely the amount. but was free
to state that II exceeded 100000 bushels.
and the last 100000 bushels of that he sold
through his principal brokers throughout
the deal. Allen, Grier & Zeller. at IS cents
per bushel. Il think" said Mr.. French,
that the price will go still higher, but the
other fellows can nave the rest"