The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-03-09
Commercial Movements
Breadstuffs.

of 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 Department of Commerce and Labor
For the first time also the monthly ex-
ports of wheat were less in quantity
than the exports of corn.
Grain receipts during January at IL
important markets, So, 403, 731 bushels,
show but little variation from the jan
uary figures of the preceding year and
the January average for the preceding
5-year period. The total inbound move
ment was made up of 16, 494, 4S4 bushels
of wheat; 20. 482, 533 bushels of corn; 16,
4s7, 593 bushels Of oats; 6, 1877, 041 bushels
of barley; and 752, 0s0 bushels of rye.
AS compared with corresponding 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 CORE.
spending monthly total. 1t should be
stated though that this decline is not a
peculiar feature of the January receipts.
AS matter of fact wheat receipts fol-
all the months of the current season be-
ginning with September were lower
than the year before, indicating either
heavier receipts 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 re-
ceipts during the 1909-10 season and
about 13 per cent short Of the average
receipts during the same period FOR the
preceding five crop seasons. The corn
receipts at fifteen interior markets for
the five months, ia, 204, 1853 bushels,
were heavier than for the same periods
in the preceding five seasons, the larger
receipts for the current season CORES
bonding to the larger export demand at
the Atlantic ports. The five months
receipts of oats, 80, S57, 225 bushels,
were larger, while those Of barley, a., :
607. 655 bushels, smaller than for the
preceding season.
The total grain receipts during the five
months period since September We're
379, 746, 1872 bushels, compared with 4OO,-
270, 433 bushels for the same period last
year and an average Of over 406 million
bushels for the preceding fve-year pc
Rod, The January shipments of flour
from thirteen milling centers, 2, 755, 904
barrels, likewise show an unfavorabe
turn as compared with the figures of the
preceding months, and the corresponding
January, 1910, total.
The month witnessed increased re-
ceipts of corn at the four principal At
iantic ports, 10, 4S5, 721 bushels, compar-
ed with 1880, S45 bushels received during
January, 1910, and 5,497, S14 bushels re-
ceived during January, 1909. Wheat re-
ceipts at the four Atlantic ports totaled
only l,240,475 bushels, compared with
3. 1874. 900 bushels received in January,
1910, and 4,308, AGO bushels received in
January, 1909, the exports at these ports
showing corresponding declines. AS a
matter of fact, of the total domestic ex-
ports Of wheat for the month, 2, 789, Isl
bushels, almost rs per cent was shipped
from the Pacific ports, the exports, from
Portland, Oregon, and Puget Sound
points leading those from any other Gus
tom district, both for the month as wei
as for the cumulative period since July,
1910. 1t should be stated, though, that
the seven months wheat exports for the
present fiscal year, II, l95, 728 bushels,
were practically only one-third Of the
average seven months exports for the
preceding flve-year period. The largest
shrinkage in the wheat exports is shown
by the Gulf ports, particularly Galveston
and New Orleans.
The total flour exports for the seven
months period ending January, 1911, s.
94S, 749 barrels, were about 26 per cent
below the average exports for the seven
months of the preceding five years. The
seven months flour exports from the
four Leading Atlantic ports are given as
AL, 1854 barrels, compared with 78O, 564
barrels in 1910 and 1917, 1870 barrels in
1909. The corn exports for the seven
m onths' period Of the present fiscal year,
1895, AGO bushels, were larger than in
1909 ard 1910 and exceeded in quantity
those of wheat, though falling consider.
ably below like exports during the years
prior to 1909. The exports of barley
during the seven months of the present
fiscal year, 9,229, SAL bushels, proceeded
mainly from San Francisco and show E
large gain over like exports in earle,
gears.
The value of all breadstuffs exported
during the seven months of the present
year was S72, 5S5, 445, showing a decline
Of % per cent. as compared with the fig
ures for the preceding year, and loss
of about As million dollars since 1906,
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