The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-03-16

flour are the leading features
of the commercial movement of
breadstuffs during January of the
present year, as reported by the
Bureau of Statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. For
the first time also the monthly ex-
ports Of wheat, were less in guam
tity than the exports of corn.
Grain receipts during January at Is
important markets, SO, 403,731 bush
els, show but little variation from
the January figures of the preceding
year and the January average for
the preceding 5-year period. The
total inbound movement was made
up of 16,494,484 bushels of wheat;
20, 482,533 bushels of corn; 16,487,
593 bushels of oats; 6,187,O41 BUSH
els of barley; and $4,000 bushels
of rye. AS compared with CORE
spending 1910 figures for the more
important grains, the receipts of
corn, oats, and barley, show larger
totals, while those of wheat show a
sharp decline from the correspond
ing monthly total 1t should be stat
ed though that this decline is not a
peculiar feature of the January re-
receipts for all the months of the
current season beginning with Sep
TENDER were lower than the year
before, indicating either heavier re-
ceipts at the smaller markets, for
which no official reports are had, or
else larger stocks in the hands of
the producers. The decrease may be
said to affect almost equally the
spring wheat and the winter wheat
markets. Wheat receipts at these
markets for the five months of the
present crop period fell more than
20 per cent short of like receipts
during the 19O9-10 season and about
Is per cent short of the average re-
ceipts during the same period for
the preceding five crop seasons. The
corn receipts at fifteen interior mar
kets for the five months, ia, 204,168
bushels, were heavier than for the
same period in the preceding five
seasons, the larger receipts for the
current season corresponding to the
larger export demand at the Allan
tic ports. The five months receipts
of oats, 9O,857,225 bushels, were
larger, while those of barley, 44,607,
655 bushels, smaller than for the
preceding season.
The total grain receipts during the
five months period since September
were 373,746,192 bushels, compared
with 400, 270,433 bushels for the
same period last year and an average
of over 406 million bushels for the
preceding five-year period. The jan
uary shipments of flour from thirteen
milling centers, 2,755, 1904, barrels,
likweise show an unfavOrable turn as
compared with the figures of the pre-
ceding months, and the correspond
ing January, 1910, total
The month witnessed increased re-
ceipts of corn at the four principal
Atlantic ports, 0,485,721 bushels,
compared with 1880. 845 bushels re-
ceived during January, 1910, and
5,487.814 bushels received during
January 1909. Wheat receipts at
the four Atlantic ports totaled only
1,240, ATS, bushels, compared with
3,934,00O bushels received in jan
uary, 1910, and 4,3O8,460 bushels,
received in January, 1909, the ex-
ports at these ports showing cores
ponding declines. AS a matter of
fact, of the total domestic exports of
wheat for the month, 2,789,151 BUSH
els, almost rs per cent was shipped
from the Pacific ports, the exports,
from Portland, Oregon, and Puget
Sound points leading those from any
other custom district, both for the
month &C wall &C for thn cumuIa five