The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-03
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

DETROIT. Feb. S-Close: Liverpool
was about steady on Friday. strength
xentine exports and estimates OF small
exports for, the world this week. Rus
sian conditions were bullish owing 10
cold weather and heavy ice delaying
exports. Both Winnipeg and Argentina
have been showing some strength. but
the easy tone in American markets
prevented an advance In Liverpool.
The trouble with the Chicago mar
ket is that commission houses are load
ed up with long wheat which they
feed ut-exerY time the market shows
tendency TO advance, This is the
property OF belated longs who did not
get out at the high price and are WELL
Ing TO accept almost anything now.
This discourages the bulls and pre-
vents anything more than a slight
bulge In prices. Cash wheat remains
dull and there Is not sufficient Inn
provement in the milling situation TO
ifIake matters better. Flour buyers are
holding OF and expecting still lower
quotations. Stocks OF wheat in the
northwest are very large and still an
creasing and the southwest reports a
slow demand for cash stun. The stock
OF wheat in Chicago is not being dis
tributed at anything like the expected
rate
The moistureless condition OF much
Of the southwestern wheat acreage Is
kept continually before the people. but
this has been known so long that liz is
ulIuCuiI 10 CTtdte any
with IL. The weather at present Is not
hurting winter wheat, but lower tenn
peraturos are expected and injury may
result.
weak most of the time on Friday and
closed "a C lower for cash. y &C lower for
May and Il c lower for July. Oats were
unchanged. Glover and ttmothyseed
wheat Quotations: Cash No. red
wheat. s4hc; May opened without
change at sac. declined to ss%c. ad-
vanced TO sec and closed at ss%c; July
advanced to s5hc c; No. white, s5hc.
Coarse grain quotations: Corn. cash
No 3, 47c: No. yellow. cars at 4sc;
No I yellow. cars az as ac Oats:
81 STANDARD m S4e No. white sshe na Rye:
Cash. sls7; March. s2.o2 cloverseed:
Prime spot and March, $3.50: sample.
40 bags at Ss.25. 10 at IS. Fl at s7.25.
ss at $40 80, II at q; prime a is
at $3.50. Timothyseed: Prime spot,
30 bags at s475.
Receipts in the Detroit market Fri
day included 200 bbls of 1our. cars
OF corn. of oats and / Of rye. With
drawals were 200 bbls OF iour.s s.491
bu of wheat and 1889 bu of corn.
Stocks are 451.911 bu OF wheat 246.1es
bu OF corn. 1a7.4s3 bu 81 oats. 1912 "a
OF barley and sl.015 bu OF rye.
Exports OF wheat from India this
week 77sooo bu; from Argentina. p
00seoo bu.
The new wheat crop OF Argentina Is
OF satisfactory quality.
Liverpool wheat closed 20 Nd low
err.
Wheat stocks Mt Minneapolis increes-
ed $4,000 bu this week.
Receipts Of wheat Friday: Duluth.
So cars. against ~ year ago: Minne-
npolIs, 202 cars. against ESQ: ST. Louis.
$4,000 blu. against $4,000 hu: Kansas
city. 81 cars. against II; Winnipeg. IL
Exports OF wheat and -four Friday
ESQ 600 blu.
Primary wheat receipts were 4s4.0oo
bu. aRairst 600 900 bu year ago.
TOLEDO GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
TOLEDO. o.. Feb 3.--wheat: Cash.
s5 &c: May, sSAc: July. SAC, Corn:
Cash. 4sc. May, 52Lc; July, So Ac.
Oats: Cash. 94kc; May. Soc: July.
35Tsc. Rye: Rye, No. 2. sac; No. 3.
soc Cioverseed: Cash, Feb. and
sss2la April. Ss.55: Oct. 100.
Alsike: Prime, $3.50; March, $40.
Prime, 1870. Butter,
eggs and hay unchanged.
CHICAGO GRAIN OPENING.
CHICAGO. Feb. 3.-Grain opening:
Ma wheat &c higher: July Isc lower.
May corn unchanged: July lsc down.
May oats unchanged; July lac down.
Provisions were fractionaily higher.
Noon: May wheat down Hc. July
declined sc. May and July corn ad-
varced &c. May and July oats un-
changed.
Close: May wheat. SIC down: July