Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-21
Grain Notes.

Fred Smith left last night for = visit to his old
home in Providence. R. i.
There was loaded out Of store at Chicago wednes-
day ea2. 100 bushels of wheat. 2sl. 600 bushels of corn
and 1000 bushels Of oats.
Mr.; F.. P. Fu,voye received yesterday the sad news
OF the death OF his mother. Mrs. Mary Ann Fut-
voye. London, Eng. aged "a years.
The -four output for the week at Minneapolis, su-
perior. Duluth. Milwaukee and St. Louis was $685.
$50 barrels. against 2o3. $50 barrels the previous week.
Argentine wheat. March shipment, sold in Liver
pool Wednesday equal to $3.50 per bushel. while hard
Manitoba. arrived steamer, sold equal to 81. 1eIk per
tushel.
The primary market receipts Yesterday were 800. $50
bushels Of wheat, against $50. 4o7 bushels a year ago.
Shipments were l4,94o bushels; last year. 49,. e33
bushels.
Clearances of wheat and -four from tn. Atlantic
and Gulf ports for the week ending yesterday were
%3.17s.f1s bushels. against 3.2Is. O52 bushels the pre-
vious week.
A Milwaukee message says: Buenos Ayres corre-
spondent cables that the exportable surplus of Ar
gentine will be 1900. 900 bushels, after allowing
5000. coo bushels for Brazil.
Puts on Chicago May wheat. good to-day. sold
yesterday at 9Is and closed at sl1sc: calls
92% closing at $3.50: May wheat sold on the
'curb' at 91Sc: May corn. puts" 29429sc;
calls" 2ssd2Sc.
Export sales at the seaboard Wednesday were as
follows: 1850 bushels of wheat at New York and
2is. 600 bushels at outports. 81. 900 bushels Of corn and
1870. 900 bushels Of oats at New York and 100. 900 BUSH
els of corn and 10000 bushels of oats at outports.
An Indiana miller, speaking of supplies in his ter
rtory says: Indiana farmers have more or less win
ter wheat, but they are not Offering. They have
their views up to 81, might have sold at that at one
time. and they are not offering 1t to us now.
The Cincinnati Price Current OF yesterday. in its
weekly crop summary, said: Wheat is mostly with
out snow covering. generally appearing we'll. Interior
roads are unfavorable for the movement Of produce.
Some wheat holders are weakening in their views.
Heavy rain and snow fell Wednesday night through
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri, except the
northeast part. The precipitation here was "a of an
inch. 1t did not extend far into Kansas. but was
rather heavy In the southeast part Of the state. Cold
er weather here, warmer west, is predicted.
One OF the largest milling establishments Of Min
neapolis obtained -four samples from dealers all over
the South with a view Of deciding how much there
was to the talk of corn adulteration in low grade
nours. Their chemists found Is to % per cent corn
adulteration in about all the samples.
Yesterdays clearances for export at the four At
lantic ports and New Orleans were 265, 900 bushels of
wheat, 60. 900 packages of -four, 500, 900 bushels of
corn. 1s2, 600 bushels OF oats and Sc. 900 bushels OF rye.
In addition Newport News cleared Ill. 430 bushels Of
corn and 49,. 900 bushels of oats. Total wheat and
-four clearances amount to 557. 900 bushels. corn si3,-
900 bushels and oats 362. 900 bushels.
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