Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-09
Grain Notes.

A Minneapolis report says two Arms sold q. 900
bushels OF -four Friday
Rains arc reported in California, where the crop
has been threatened by the prolonged drouth.
Galveston wheat stocks are ISL. 900 bushels and
corn 5l3. 600 bushels: no exports the past week.
The report Of the Russian minister says wheat crop
prospects are not as favorable as they were a year
ago.
The temperature was around the freezing point
in the grain states yesterday. Warmer weather lis
predicted.
Wheat receipt. a. Liverpool for the last three days
have aggregated 1854. coo bushels. of which 30i. 900
bushels were American.
A New York message yesterday quoted a direct
cable from Rosario placing the Argentine eHportable
surplus at $4,000. 600 bushels.
Minnesota wheat receipts yesterday were 29 cars,
against 1877 cars a year ago. and Duluth received So
cars. against IS cars a year ago.
Argentine wheat shipments for the past week were
$1,000 bushels. compared with none the previous
! week and 5000 bushels a year ago.
There were loaded out of store at Chicago Friday
%. 500 bushels of wheat. 256. 100 bushels Of corn, 49,
900 bushels Of oats and IS. $50 bushels Of rye.
The -four output at Minneapolis. Duluth and Mil
waukee last week was 2ss. oov barrels. against 24s.-
600 barrels a year ago and 3l6, 900 barrels two years
ago.
A Bcerbohm cable says: The estimated Argentine
surplus OF wheat is reduced from a million tons to
SOC, 900 tons. and Of linseed from 3o, 900 tons to 49,
geo tons.
The primary market receipts yesterday we're see. GOO
bushels OF wheat, against 26, S72 bushels q year
ago. Shipments were l22. s4s bushels: last year. 1885,
iSs bushels.
A Broomhall cable says: The Indian drouth area is
extending. and the Delhi district is now affected.
| The Continental demand for wheat is improving.
United Kingdom stocks are decreasing.
| Exports Of corn from the United States the past
week were 1856 900 bushels; last week, i.s7s. oGs
bushels; a year ago. 4.Sls.ooo: two years ago. 2.s2s.-
600 bushels; three years ago. 1867. 900 bushels.
Bartlett & Frazier. of Chicago. have Withdrawn
their private wire from the market hero. taking It
out yesterday. The only ones now here are J. F.
Harris & Co.'S. Baldwin & Gurney's' and F. G.
Logan's.
Puts on Chicago May wheat. good Monday. sold
at sos gsossc. closing at sohdsoac: calls sold at
slsdsec; May wheat sold on the curb at elH9
slAc. and closed at 9lAc: May corn, puts 293sc;
calls 2eA G29Hc. closing at 294c.
Export sales Friday were reported as follows: Is. 900
bushels of wheat at New York. l6S. 900 bushels at
Baltimore and $1,000 bushels at Boston. $4,000 BUSH
els OF corn and 1000 bushels of oats at New York
and los. 900 bushels Of corn and 10000 bushels of oats
at out ports.
and Canada for the first week in January amount to
S,+sl. !16 bushels, against 1896. 900 bushels last week.
1851. 900 bushels in this week a year ago. 3.l09. 900
bushels in the corresponding week in 1896 and $751;
900 bushels in 1895.
The exports OF wheat and -four from both coasts
of the United States and Canada in the twenty-six
weeks since July / amount to 1872. sls. 900 bushels.
against 81. $50, 900 bushels in the corresponding time
q year ago, &C. eS5. 600 bushels two years ago and
IL. i3i. 600 bushels three years ago.
The Missouri state crop report. made public late
yesterday. gives the acreage of winte. wheat 1884, 600
acres, which Is a decrease OF "a per cent from last
year. The condition varies from 6s per cent in the
southern half TO IS per cent m the northern part.
Weather conditions are favorable.
Yesterdays clearances for export at the four At
lan,ic ports wore 3ss, 900 bushels OF wheat, 3S. 900
packages OF Hour. 5000 bushels OF corn. 81. 900 bush
els OF oats and 80, So bushels of rye. In addition,
New Orleans cleared H.. 355 bushels OF wheat, 790
barrels Of -four and 81. 900. bushels Of corn. Total
wheat and -four ciearances amount TO 1900 bush.
els. and corn 372. 900 bushels.
F. C. Logan, of Chicago. wired W. W.. Cowen yes
terday this about corn: III. Peters. the corn handler,
says: Money as cheap and plenty in Nebraska as
in Chicago and bankers urging their customers to
! feed their corn, causing an extra home demand for
this cereal everywhere West. Kansas will probably
ship out its corn. but will use in feeding opera
tons this year as much as it will raise"
The Liverpool Corn Trade News cables the Chi.
cago Daily Trade Bulletin: The aggregate Euro.
pean stocks afoat and ashore of wheat and -four.
on January i, were Il. 620. 90 bushels. an increase
during last month Of 2.720, 600 bushels. but 1850. OOl
bushels less than a year ago and Is. ls0, 900 bushels
smaller than two years ago. Russian stocks this
year are l6, 600. 900 bushels. an increase OF 2. 800. 0c
bushels during December, but 1000. 900 bushels les.
than January !. 1897.