Kansas City journal., 1898-02-03
Grain Notes.

Stocks Of wheat in United Kingdom ports $500.
900 bushels. decrease of 100000 bushels in jan
uary-
ST. Louis message yesterday said: Freuchmen
have advanced their bid 1c per bushei for No. : red
wheat for export.
Ben b. Bryan of the firm of F. G. Logan. OF Chi
cago. is in the city visiting friends and was on
change yesterday.
Milwaukee wheat receipts yesterday $4,000
bushels, against H. 900 bushels year ago. Corn
receipts. 1000 bushels; year ago, 5000 bushels
Oats. 1000 bushels: year ago. $4,000 bushels.
be colder here to-day. 1t is 10 to l! below zero in
the Northwest. zero in Iowa and Nebraska to IL
above in Kansas. 10 to 20 above in Missouri
Puts on Chicago May wheat: good to-day sold
yesterday s4aa9i9.c; calls s5Sd96lsc. and
closed at s6asslsc: May wheat sold on the curb
2Ss.c; puts on July wheat sold at si5sc.
Export sales Tuesday were as follows: At New
York bushels s. % 900 No ssa s 10 f nd, 1pr n ;n
French account; 10000 bushels of corn and 5000
bushels of oats at New York and no 600 bushels Of
corn and &c, 900 bushels OF oats at outports.
The primary market receipts yesterday $4,000
bushels of wheat. against 2O5 900 bushels year ago:
bushels. Corn receipts. 7Is.0O0 bushels; year ago.
$4,000 bushels. Shipments. css.oOO bushels; last
year Jos. 900 bushels.
ports 1l9 bushels of wheat. % 529 pack
of -four ss 92s bushels Of corn 's2C3 bushels of
oats and 15o.29s bushels OF rye. In addition. New
orleans cleared so 600 bushels Of wheat and 1.25O
barrels OF -four. Total wheat and -four clearances
amount to 265V00 bushels.
Among the important decreases in wheat stocks
reported by Bradstreet's and not included In the
official statement Of the visible supply de
OF 2OO 900 bushels in Northwestern interior
elevators; Ii4 900 bushels at Manitoba and Ontario
storage points, 1000 bushels at Chicago private ele
vators and 81 .0O0 bushels at New Orleans. There
quite a number of small increases sh'Dn. the
largest being that of IS 900 bushels Pittsbg The
gain in and oats stocks are largely due to
rections at Milwaukee private elevators.
Thoman's February crop report shows the present
average condition of winter wheat for the whole
breadth is 9O.2 per cent against SIS per cent last
month. and Sal per cent December !. The condi-
tion the six principal states east of the Rocky
mountains SS.2. against Sis last month and 7S5
on December l. On the Pacific coast the condition
is 9i.5 per cent. against s6.G last month"; and 9iS
on December l. An Interpretation of the condition
Of the whole crop is e0.2 per and according
this means Is bushels per acre present pros
pect coo 900 bushels against 3fs 900 600 bush
els estimated by him TO have been harvested last
year.
A Beerbohm circular of January 81 says We have
had abundant evidence in the last weeks that
the trade regards Argentina arbter of prices in
the immediate future. When offers of La Plata
wheat for shipment were rather pressing, and there
was an active demand for steamers load in Ar
gentne ports. the opinion freely that
Argentine had, after ALL large surplus. and would
soon begin press 4. forward. The direct c0nse-
quence that prices generally suffered Now
however, there few. IL any. offers of this wheat
for the United Kingdom, ana buyers showing
anxiety about the supply OF their future
ouiremants, more the first official forecast of
the Indian crop is by no means SO favorable as
pected.