Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-31
FOOD STOCKS LARGELY
 INCREASED OVER LAST
 YEAR; ELEVATORS FULL
Over Two Million Bushels of Wheat
 Now In Elevators and Warehouses, Exclusive of Commercial and Farm
 Stocks.

Washington. Dec 3O.-The comlper cial stocks of what reported in sur vey made by the Department of Agri- culture for December 1, 1918, amount ed to 219,434,S32 bushels. These holi- ings, by 10,669 firms-elevators, ware houses, grain mills and wholesale dealers-were more than twice as large as the stocks held by the same firms a year earlier, the actual per- centage being 206.1 per cent of the 1917 stocks. The figures refer to stocks actually reported and do not represent the commercial stocks of the country, nor do they include stocks on farms.
 Visible Supply Figures Compared.
 The commercial visible supply fig ures, as published by the Chicago, Board of Trade for the nearest date November 30, 191S) show 1,561 1000 bushels of wheat as against 21 ,031 ,000 bushels year ago. Corresponding 'Bradstreet figures for 194S show 131,- 5S4,000 bushels as against 29,633 ,000 bushels for 1917. As compared with the same date of last year, these figures, as we'll as these obtained by the more extensive survey, show a very great relative increase in con- mercial stocks of wheat on December 1, 1918.
 Other Cereals, Flour, and Corn Meal.
 The commercial stocks of other cer- calls reported for December 1, 1918, ac cording to the department statement, were as follows: Corn, 13, ,193, 7S9 bush 01e, %c ,oIe l,n, 74,400,7S7 bushels; rye, 13,936J010 bushels. These stocks represent the following percentages of the cores bonding stocks on December 1, 1917: Corn, 129.0 per cent; oats, 94.6 per cent; barley, HOS per cent; rye, 154.2 per cent fev
 The commercial stocks of flour and corn meal, as reported for the surrey, were: Wheat flour, white. 6,397 ,490 barrels; whole wheat and graham flour, 133,1S9 barrels; rye flour, 266,- 107 barrels; corn flou., 51 ,676,911 pounds. corn meal, 72,S25,916 pounds; buckwheat flour, 13,54S,309 pounds; mixed flour, 26,623,397 pounds. These stocks represent the following per- centages of the stocks on hand year ago: Wheat flour white ,170.4 per cent whole wheat and graham flour, 9421 per cent: rye flour, 215.S percent; corn meal, 227.S per cent; buckwheat flour 22O.4 per cent; mixed flour, 243.5 per cent.
 Stocks of Selected Commodities.
 Elevators, warehouses. and whole sale dealers reported stocks of beans amounting to 7,2S5,713 bushels, while wholesale grocers and warehouses re- ported the following commodities and in the amounts indicated: Rice, 49,- 99S,S1O pounds; rolled oats, S0,4S9 ,666 pounds; canned salmon, 96,S93,624 pounds; canned tomatoes, 245, ,4S9 ,2o4 pounds; canned corn, Ill, ,336,0lO pounds; sugar, 164356.634 pounds. These stocks represent the following percentages of the correspondents stocks on hand December l, l9l|: Beans, 1545 per cent; rice, 62.6 per cent; rolled oats, 165.7 per cent; can ned salmon. 94.3 per cent; canned, to- matoes, 14O.3 per cent; canned corn, 1855 per cent; sugar l23.0 per cent.
 Stocks of condensed and evaporated milk were reported by condensorles cold storages, warehouses and Whole- sale grocers, as follows: Condensed milk, 49,S7S,129 pounds; evaporateo milk, 146,757,96S pounds. The holdings of condensed milk reported for Decem- her i. 1918, represented 119.7 per cent of the stocks held by the same firms a wear earlier. while the holdings ol evaporated milk represented 'z:o per cent of the December, 1917, stock'