The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-08
OTHER GRAIN MARKETS.

GRAIN GOSSIP-Gossip by private wire to
=. ID. F. Smith Co., st. Paul! members of
the New York stock exchange and Chicago
board of trade.-Des Moines-All eur cash
dealers say they are buying no corn at pres
ent prices and cannot as farmers will not
sell. Feeders have had to use more corn
than they have for years. and now paying
from &c to 4c over what dealers can pay.
There is very small per cent of corn in cribs
compared with last three years, and when
roads break up Iowa will not have the corn
TO sell. Wheat has been badly damaged the
last two weeks by the extremely cod weather.
Zero here now, when farmers would be sow
Contract stocks show for the week an in
crease in wheat OF 763, GEO bu and increase in
corn of 214,Coo ard increase IN oats Of $4,000
steady and unchange ID
Berlin-Wheat c:osing firm; May, Y mark
higher: July ! mark higher.
NEW YORK, March 7.-Four--Receipts,
2o,136 bbls; exports 1852 bbs; dui and gen
orally easier. Whsat-Receipts, 296, 600 blu;
spot easier; No. red, SS1ac I. o. b., afioat, to
arrive; options opened firmer and were sus-
tanned under the heavy increase in the worlds
stock, according to Bradstreet's, and liberal
interior receipts caused active unloading by
many purchasers; the afternoon market
therefore weak and heavy with Chicago sell
ing here e.: e.os@d weak at ss@5sc net decline;
March, S212@SSAc, closed at S21ac; May, 1910
rs 15-16c, closed at 76Ac. Corn-Receipts, IT,
025 bu; exports, 300 bu; spot easier; No. 2.
425s 1870. I. o. b., afioat; options opened
steady on cable news; there was less pressure
on the market. with export demand fair again
prices he'd Arm all day until near the close,
when they broke with wheat and closed weak
and unchanged; March Closed at 42Ac. Oats
Receipts. 104, 400 blu; exports. 46,16o bu; spot
dull; No. 2, SAC: No. 2 white, 36kc.
GRAIN VISIBLE SUPPLY-Special cable
and Geographic dispatches to Bradstreet's in
dictate the following changes in the available
supplies of grain last Saturday, as compared
with the preceding Saturday: Wheat-United
States and Canada east Of Rocky mountains,
decrease 1,050,0C0 blu; Corn Trade News, afoat
for and in Europe, 4,031, 000: total supply, in
crease. 100000 bu. Corn-United States and
Canada, east of Rockies, increase 1,257, coo
of Rockiel increase, 425, 900 blu. Among the
more important decreases reported to Brad
streets, not given in the official supply state
ment are those of 3,0O0 Blu at Northwestern
elevators; 254, 600 blu at New Orleans 120 600
Blu at Galveston. Is. COO blu at Louisville and
$1,000 blu at Portland, Me. The principal in
creases are those of 14S000 blu at Chicago pr.
vate elevators and rs, COO blu at outside Mani
toba POINTS. The aggregate stocks of wheat
held at Portland, Or, and Tacoma and Seat
tie, Wash. decreased $4,000 blu during the
LIVERPOOL, March Z. = Wheat spot,
steady; No. California. stock exhausted No.
1 red northern spring. IS I'd; No. red west
ern winter, stock exhausted; No red north
steady; American, mixed old, IS 4d Futures
quiet; March IS sgd; May, IS sgd; July,
3s 57sd. Futures closed quiet. March. IS I'd;
May, IS 7&d; July, 5s I'D.
ST. LOUIS, March Wheat steady; No.
red track. 7o@7Olzc; March, 7shc; May,
75Ac; July, 6Sasc; No. 2 hard, 6Sd69c Corn,
lower, No. cash, 331ac; track, 34A@341hc;
March, S3l4c; May 335sc; July, 341ac. Oats,
lower; No. cash, 29c:- track, 291bc; March,
29c; May, 2SAc; July, A1ac; No 2 white,
3l1s@3iAc. Rye, firm Coo. Flax. nominal,
S1.10.
KANSAS CITY. March Wheat, steady;
No hard, 64965c; No 8. 62@64c; No. red,
75c; No. 8, 69c; No. spring, 63G64c: No. 3,
G0063c. Corn, steady; No. mixed, 32Ac; No
white, 33c; No. 3, 3215c. Oats, steady, No.
white 29M30c. Rive steady; No. e. &c.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, March u Flour
steady. Wheat quiet; No. 1 northern, re;
No northern, zoe. Oats steady; 28@3Oc.
Rye steady, No; / SIC. Barley lower; No. 2,
4914c; sample. 431h@49c.