Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-17
Grain Notes.

A Chicago report yesterday said: 300. 900 bushels
OF corn was sold for export to-day, all to one Balti-
more concern.
A Broomhall cable yesterday said: Three cargoes
OF WalIa Walla wheat arrived at Queenstown for
orders to-day and was all ordered to the Continent.
A Broomhall cable says: The foreign importation
OF wheat into Germany during January was 2.2l0.00 o
bushels. as compared with 1.39e. 900 bushels in De-
cember and 1916. 900 bushels in January, 1897.
A Minneapolis message yesterday said: To-day's
receipts contain "a cars OF winter wheat. There is
nothing new here. but it looks like Chicago par
ties are buying cash wheat here to go to Chicago.
Country receipts are almost nothing.
The temperature everywhere in the country con-
tinues mild for this season Of the year, though it is
below zero in North Dakota and little above in Min
nesota. There is a prospect for rain or snow and
colder weather.
Exporters took at the seaboard Tuesday 100. 900
bushels Of No. 2 red wheat for Lisbon, from New
York. and SIS. 900 bushels at outports; 49,. 900 bushels
of corn and 900 bushels of oats at New York. ana
100, 900 bushels Of corn and 200. 900 bushels of oats at
outports.
Yesterdays clearances for export at the four Attain
ages OF -four. GAG, $40 bushels OF corn. 5s. CAB bushels
Of oats and las, on bushels OF rye. Total wheat and
-four clearances amount to pa 900 bushels.
The primary market receipts yesterday were $780,
ssi bushels Of wheat, against 222 .9o9 bushels a year
ago. Shipments were IS. 4os bushels; last year. 49,, III
bushels. Corn receipts. $4,000 bushels: a year ago.
7si. 900 bushels. Shipments. Az, 900 bushels; last
year, 1893. 900 bushels.
Wheat receipts at Chicago January 1 to February
Il this year were .431. 900 bushels: receipts for the
same period last year were just about half as much.
or 7s5. 700 bushels. Wheat shipments from Chicago
u tuto Sdiuc pciiOu tAio C Ao'S bSSh 'AhrOV
bushels: shipments for the same period of 1897 were
more than four times as large. 1855, 900 bushels.
Puts on Chicago May wheat, good to-day. sold
yesterday at 9siscds1.O01a closing at s1.0o: calls"
81. oea1 IL. and closed at sllo1s. May wheat sold
on the curb at closing at sl.05as.
May corn. puts 3O&~ @3OsG3llsc. closing at 3lc;
calls" 3l5s9S2G32tsc. and closed at &c; puts
on July wheat sold at S71kGS7;sc, and closed at S73sc;
calls s9A d94c. closing at 94c.
Charles Counselman is Just back from Europe. and
talks very bullish on wheat to his friends. His bull
views made their impression because early in the
trip abroad he sent some very bearish cables. He
now declares Europe will need all the wheat that
America has to spare. He was even quoted as say
ing that Letter had sold a million bushels OF No. 1
Northern wheat abroad, and that he knew the man
Letter had sold to.
A Chicago paper says: Probably 5 per cent of the
corn crop Of 1896 still remains in farmers hands, and
about 40 per cent Of the lSs. crop. There is more
corn cribbed In Nebraska at this moment than We
have ever known before, but II is all held by rich
SPECTATORS, Kansas is feeding enormous quant-
ties of corn. and a moderate estimate OF the amount
that will be fed this season in Nebraska would not
fan short of lO. O00. 900 bushels. The movement OF
corn as far as farmers are concerned Will be over
by or about March !.