South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-07-15
Of GRAIN
TAKEN IN SURVEY
Department of Agriculture
Brings Estimates Down to
June |, for Season.

The commercial stocks of wheat
reported to the United States de-
partment Of agriculture in a food
survey Cor June l, 1918. amounted
to 17,O6s,4S7 bushels. This refers TO
stocks actually reported and does
not represent an estimate Of the to-
tai 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 statement just issued by the
department these stocks were held
by 1876 firms out of a total OF 49,,
1O9 submitting reports Cthe firms
consisting OF elevators, warehouses,
grain mills and wholesale grain
dealers), and were 1872 percent of
the stock held by the same firms on
June l, 1917.
The commercial visible supply
figures as published by the Chicago
board of trade show only Las. 900
bushels Of wheat. as against 1885,
600 bushels a year ago. and the
Bradstreet figures for June l show
$4,000 bushels, as against a.
$4,000 bushels for the same date in
1917. The board Of trade figures
cover commercial holdings in about
a score of large cities; the Brad
street figures cover these holdings
and those If certain smaller mar
kets, in all about so The food
survey figures cover practically all
commercial holdings throughout the
country. These figures indicate that
the stocks of wheat in the primary
J. arkets were largely depleted and
that the commercial holdings were
contiIe1 for the most part TO the
smaller interior points
The commercial stocks OF other
cereals on June 1, according to the
departments statement, were as
follows: Corn 32.S34,521 bushels;
oats. 42.943.61O bushels; barley, s.
22S,16f bushels; and rye 3,178,105
bushels. These stocks represent the
following percentages of the cores
ponding stocks on June /. 1917.
corn, 1875 percent; oats. 9O.6 per-
cent; barley, 1917 percent and rye,
20S.S percent.
The commercial stocks of flour
and meal as reported in the survey
were: Wheat flour. white. 4,433,-
5l5 barrels; whole wheat and gra-
ham -four, 153,966,O0O barrels: rye
flour, 1,0O5,691 barrels; rye meal.
3,612,S63 pounds; barley -four. l.
O92. SO barrels; barley meal, 1866
047 pounds; corn -four. 49.701.212
pounds; granuiated corn meal. H.
664.4 pounds; other corn meal.
43.23S.1S3 pounds; and buckwheat
-four. 3,101,059 pounds. These stocks
represent the following percentages
Of the stocks on hand a year ago;
wheat flour, white, 64.6 percent;
whole wheat and graham flour.
I41.7 percent; rye flour. 1879 per-
cent: rye meal. 1851 percent: bar
ley meal. 377.9 percent; graduated
corn meal. 220.9 percent; other corn
meal, 227.9 percent, and buckwheat
Hour. 95.5 percent. The stocks OF
corn -four and barley -four on hand
June /, 1917. were so small as to
make unnecessary any comparison
between them and the present
stocks on a percentage basis. The
stocks Of corn -four on June l this
year show an increase over the
holdings reported a month earlier,
being 49,7O1,212 pounds as against
24.396.026 pounds.
The following commodities were
reported by wholesale grocers: with
the results Indicated Beans. o.
770,700 bushels; rice, 61,5S4,539
pounds: rolled oats. 5o,057,7ss
pounds; canned salmon, 1915
$50 pounds: canned tomatoes. 95.-
571,6S9 pounds; canned corn, A.
399,225 pounds, sugar. 237.191,696
pounds. The stocks of beans. rolled
oats, canned salmon and canned to-
matoes showed a substantial in
crease, the present stocks represent
ing the following percentages OF
those on hand a year ago: Beans
1916 percent; rolled oats, 1875 per-
cent, canned salmon, 1872 percent
and canned tomatoes, 1871 percent
The stocks Of sugar. rice and can
ned corn on the other hand were
from II to 81 percent smaller than
those of last year. Returns from
wholesale grocers reporting holding:
Of condensed milk on June l. 1915
| indicated that the stocks of con
densed milk, amounting to POSTS.
500 pounds. we're III percent larger
than those last year and that the
/ stocks OF evaporated milk, amount.
ing to 73.243.924 pounds, wer,
I1771, 2O6 percent larger than or