The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-11
OTHER GRAIN MARKETS.

GRAIN GOSSIP = Gossip by private
wire to c. H. F. Smith & Co, St. Paul.
change and Chicago board of trade
The Buffalo News shows no apparent
change in situation there. The men still
refuse any compromise expect the i'm
possible that Connors shall give up his
contract. Still 1t is felt that end is likely
to come al any moment some way or 9TH
er. The vesselmen will not risk charters
to Buffalo, some business Is doing via
other pointS.-KanSaS City wires: "A
travelling man from one of our largest
agricultural implement houses Just. re-
turned from a trip through Oklahoma
says the high winds of a week ago blew
out fully 20 per cent of the wheat. He
believes fl ON close observation and best
information that the crop of that section
is very largely over estimated. '-Des
Moines To-, wires: IA large area has
been prepared for corn. Corn and oat
planting will be in full as soon as eondi-
tions OF soil will premit.
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT
The crop report for May issued by the
department of agriculture follows: The
May returns to the StatiStician of the de-
partment of agriculture show the in
crease in winter wheat in cultivation on
May l to have been about Is, $1,000 acres
This is about four million acres less than
the area estimated to have been sown
last fall but 1t still slightly exceeds the
area of winter wheat harvested last year.
states as compared with the area seeded
last fall is as follows: Kansas, 65S, 1000;
Illinois, 101 900; Indiana, 1894 900; Missouri
$4,000; Texas, 227,0oO; Ohio. 1880 Ne
consin, 100000; Tennessee, 10000. For the
area now under cultivation the average
condition in 1862 as compared with S6.5.
on May l, 1898, and S5.9 the mean of the
average of the last ten years. The con-
dition in the principal states, after re-
ducing the acreage as, indicated, is as
Virginia, IS; Texas, 81: Tennessee, 76;
Kentucky, rs; Ohio, 50; Michigan, 60; In
diana, Sc; Illinois, 81; Missouri. s.; Kan
sas, 81; California, 90; Oklahoma, Sc. The
as compared with 94.5 on May l, 1898, and
9O.S the mean of the May averages for
the last ten year. About one-half of the
entire winter rye crop is grown in New
York and Pennsylvania, where the condi-
tons are So and 81, respectively. Spring
blowing is unusually late in almost every
ready done is estimated at 572 per cent of
the total contemplated The proportion
usually done by May. is about 10 per
ton of meadows is $40, against 929 on
May 1, of last year, and 1874 on the cor.
responding date in 1897 The average con-
dIt1on OF spring pastures is 1875, against
responding date in 1897.
NEW YORK, May 1O.-Flour-Receipts
1883 bbls; exports, 1858 lbs; steady and
winters. Rye. flour dull. Wheat-Re-
ceiptsceipts, 27,75O; exports. 1880; spot
Gull; NO. red, S33sc; spot f. O. b. af1oat
and 1850 elevator; No. red, S27sc arrive
+. o. b.; No. northern, Duluth, Size f. O.
b.. afloat to arrive; options opened steady
on publish gossip; subsequently turned
weak and ruled dead dull and heavy all
afternoon under liquidation, disappoint-
ing cable news and small export trade;
! the close was easy at as@Ac net decline
| July, 1850; September, 751ac; December
76c Corn-,Receipts, 1922, $50; exports, 1908;
| spot steady; No. 2, 40ssc f. O. b., afloat
options steady to firm all day on cover
ing induced by export rumors and higher
cables, closing steady; May, 3S%c; July
SSAc Oats-Receipts, 10000; exports,
l,5l7; spot steady; No 8, soc; track white,
| 34Q39c; options dull
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May 1O.-Flour
steady; Wheat firm; No. northern, 73K
| G74c; No. northern, 72c. Oats firm. 27d
1880 Rye steady; No. 1, Soc. Barley
quiet: No. 2, Ale; sample, 35@41c.
| LIVERPOOL May 1O-C1osing: Corn,
| spot American mixed, new firm. IS SID
American mixed old firm. IS sgd Flu
lures quiet. Wheat sept, steady Futures
| quiet; May, IS SID; July, 5s 7%d; Sept,
5s I'D.