Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-26
Grain Notes.

Indian wheat shipments the past week were ass 900
bushels. against $4,000 bushels 4 year ago.
Onhc!al reports Of the Indian wheat crop indicate .
condition IN Per cent below last year.
The cash business At Chicago Friday vas 100. 900
bushels Of corn and 5000 bushels Of oats
The weather vas mild all over the country ysstsr-
Gay. but much lower temperature In predicted.
The receipts Of wheat here the past week were -
cars. against rs cars the same time last year.
A New York message yesterday reported ten loads
OF wheat and ten loads Of corn taken for export.
A Chicago message says: The total stock Of No. 3
red wheat here has been sold to 90 to St. Louis.
The indicated worlds wheat shipments tho past
week are 1900. 900 bushels. according to Beerbohm.
A Minneapolis message reported q sale of 20. 900
barrels Of hour yesterday for Alden. on the Suez canal.
els Of wheat. 100000 bushels Of corn and 4o.ooo
bushels OF rye.
Minneapolis received 20 cas of wheat yesterday.
against 257 cars q year ago. and Duluth 1Ss cars.
against s. cars Q year ago.
Australian wheat shipments the past week were
SA. 900 bushels, against as. 900 bushels the previous
week and none Q year ago
English farm deliveries Of wheat the past week
we're Us 100 bushels. price ss "a against s4o. 900
A Minneapolis message nays there is not enough
cash wheat to supply milles' wants. and that they
are Obliged to buy May wheat to hedge sales Of -four.
The exports OF corn from the United States in the
thirty-eIght weeks since July i amount to 12s. Gas. 600
bushels. against 135. 723. coo bushels q year ago. 49,
eos. 900 bushels two years ago and 7s.sss.oo bushels
three years ago.
The Purcell Grain Company had q lsttsr from the
A. n. chadsey Mercantile Company. Cherokee. Kas:
yesterday. which says: THE wheat in Cherokee and
Crawford county 10 badly hurt. and I do not think II
will make half . CROP"
past week amounted to ~s.7oO.ooo busheis. against
s;sil.o eui ! els s The Sss : ~ .e sas, $50 s. ;e o. bushels s : .
in 1896 and $4,000 bushels in 1895.
Yesterdays cieafances for export at the four Allan
tic ports were II. 81 bushels OF wheat; q. 1886 pack
els Of oats Total wheat and -four clearances amount
ed to 2ss. 900 bushels. and corn s:s.oo bushels.
The primary market receipts yesterday were 4ss.o 900
shipments were lss. 600 bushels. last year $4,000 BUSH
els. Corn. receipts 2c8 900 bushels. . year ago "a. 900
bushels: shipments $500 bushels. last year S72. 0oo
bushels.
The exports Of wheat and -four from both coasts Of
."s sn sine. July july i .n mount Snnap % i, ias' Is: sss. 90 so'f syshsia.
against Is3. 0So.oo0 bushels Q year ago. 17. 542. 900
bushe.. two yeas ago and IS. sOs. 900 bushels three
years ago.
The total exports Of wheat (nour included from the
United States and Canada the past week aggregated
vious week. s.ssS, 90 bushels in past week ! year T sse.
l.1.s.0 600 bushels In 1897. Las. 900 bushels In 1856 and
1.56s. 900 bushels In 1886.
The Toledo Market Reporter publishes 4 compiia-
tion Of prices of grain during the past eleven years.
taking the lowest price in March and the highest
pay q proat in April. The average for these eleven
years for March were about 7sc for wheat. ss,sc
Doc for wheat. &C for corn and SOc for oats.
Ths st. Louis Republic says: Crop reports from
Ohio are uniformly good. and this state forms an
exception to the rule. although the reports from
other states are contradictory. and. - usual. per-
picking. Reserves OF wheat and corn in Ohis as
large. and with the present dne appearance OF the
crop Il II expected there will Be q much larger
movement Of cereals than has been witnessed recent
ly. Mills are bare Of stocks aud will absorb q good
deal OF the wheat.
The Chicago Ttmes-HeraId says: The very small
Offering Of corn West of late is having q peculiar In
auence upon the local shipping situation: Whatever
corn business 10 done with the seaboard or with the
other side must be river billing. which carries the
cheap export rats. For the last two days shippers
have snd considerable business with the other side
would be possible II river billing could be obtained.
That has been very scarce. and 20 It happened that.
because the corn man west Of the Mississippi was
holding On. the exporter at Chicago was finding II
hard to do business with the other side.
Shows weekly crop report places emphaAis upon the
fact that 1t IL too early to have much more than q
theory a. TO crop conditions. He summarizes such
reports as he has received by saying that. while the
crop has certainly deterorated from last fall, there
II nothing to warrant expectation Of crop failure He
estimates the percentages Of an average crop a. now
indicated as follows: Texas. 81: Tennessee. IS; Ken
lucky. Is; Ohio. 81; Michigan. %: Indiana, 81; ILL
nols. IS: Missouri. -: Ksnsaa. ~: Nebraska, "a;
California. 80. and Oregon, u. He says these per-
centages merely suggest the theories Of correspond
ents.