Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-03
REPORT MADE
OF GRAIN ON
HAND IN u
Commercial Stock of Wheat
on Hand June ! this Year
17,068,487 Bushels.

Washington, July 1.-The CONNER
ctal stocks Of wheat reported to the
United States department of agricul-
ture in q food survey for June /, 1918,
amounted to 1~7,068,4sz bushels. This
refers to stocks actually reported and
does not represent an estimate Of the
total commercial stocks OF the coun-
try. Neither do the figures include
stocks on farms on June /, for which
no data are available. According to
the staternent just issued by the de-
partnnent those stocks were held by
Is,576 firms out Of q total Of 1S,109
submitting reports (the firms consist
ing Of elevators, warehouses, grain
mills and wholesale grain deaiers),
and were 1872 per cent Of the stocks
held by the same firms on June /,
The commercial visible supply fig
ures as published by tho Chicago
Board Of Trade show only I.146.000
bushels Of wheat, as against 1885,
600 bushels a year ago, and the Brad
900 bushels, as against 3%4,876.00O
bushels for the same date in 1917.
The Board Of Trade figures cover
commercial holdings in about q score
of large cities; the Bradstreet figures
cover thess holdings and those in. GER
tain smaller markets. in all about SO.
The food survey figures cover practic-
ally all commercial holdings through
out the country. These figures indicate
that the stocks Of wheat in the pri-
mary markets were largely depleted
were confined for the most part to the
smaller interior points.
J The commercial stocks Of other GER
GALS An YS1NA Z oAA4:;n- - -
~partment's statement, were as fol-
lows: corn, s2.s54,521 bushels; oats,
4~2,s4a.slo bushels; barley, B,22s.164
bushels; and rye, s.17s.lo5 bushels.
:Thess stocks represent the following
percentages Of the corresponding
stocks on June 1, 1917: corn, 1875 per
cent: oats, 90.6 per cent; barley, 1917
per cent. and rye. 2os.s per cent.
The commercial stocks, OF -four and
meal as reported in the survey were:
Wheat flour, white, 4,433,515 barrels;
whole wheat and graham -four, 1884,
sbS,ooo barrels; rye flour. 1.00b, s91
barrels; rye meal, 3,612,e63 pounds;
barley hour, 1,092.3lo barrels: barley
4s.7o1,2l2 pounds; granulated corn
meal, 77.664,450 pounds; other corn
meal. 43,23s,1s3 pounds; and buck
wheat flour, z,10l,059 pounds. These
stocks represent the following per-
centages OF the stocks on hand q year
ago: wheat -four, white, 64.6 per cent:
whole wheat and graham flour, l4i.7
per cent; rye ~hnnFN4i9.s per cent; rye
meal, 1851 Per cent; barley meal,
S7f.S per cent, and buckwheat four
and barley flour on hand June i. 1917.
wefs g small a. 70 make Unnecessary
any comparison between them and the
present stocks on q percentage basis
The stocks Of corn flour on June 1 this
year show an increase over the hold.
ings reported a month earlier. being
026 pounds
The following commoditias were re-
ported ~ wholseale srocsrs. With the
esulte indicated: Beans, 5.77O.7 0e
ousaels; rice; ei:ss4.s3s pounds; roll.
salmon. 7s.s11.sso pounds: csnned
tomatoes S~5.67i.sSs pounds; canned
corn, 47,s9S,126 pounds and sugar,
S~37.iS1.S16 pounds. The stocks OF
beams 1olled i0ats. CANNED salmon ana
canned tomatoes shovad q obatantiai
inereaSe,N he present stocks Represents
ms the following percentages Of those
or mana year ago: Beams, 1915 per
seat: rolled oats 1879 per cent; cam
9 salmon 1l9.2 per cent, aad canned
tonaA3os4 LII per cent The etocks
other hand wsrC from IL 10 Al mar
cent smaller than those OF last year.
Hsefurns from wholesale grpcssv re-
porting holdings Of condensed milk on
jams Il 1913 Indicated that tie 0tocks
q eendsused milk. asnountlne % fo.-
1fb,SoS pounds, were 11.7 per cent
tasger than. those last year and Ghat