The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03
FOOD STOCKS ON HAND
SURVEY WAS MADE BY The
AGGlE DEPARTMENT
Visible Supply Figures Com
pared; Wheatand Flour,
Other Materials
Especial to Free Press.l

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Washington, d. c., December 3d.
THE commercial stocks OF wheat re-
ported in survey made by the de-
partment of agriculture for December
/, 1918, amounted to 219,434,S32 hu-
shells. These holdings, by 1860
firms-elevators, warehouses, grain
mills and wholesale dealers-were
more than twice as large as the
stocks held by the same firms year
earlier, the actual percentage 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 80, 1881 show 121.561,-
600 bushels of wheat as against
21,031 900 bushels year ago. Cor
responding Bradstreet figures for
1918 show 131, 584,000 bushels as
against 29,633,000 bushels for 1917.
last year, these figures, as well as
those obtained by the more extensive
survey, show very great relative in
crease in commercial stocks of wheat
on December 1, 1918.
Other Cereals, Flour, and Corn Meal.
The commercial stocks of other
cereals reported fer December /,
1918, according to the department
statement, were as follows: Corn.
13,193,7S9 bushels; oats, 61,670,351
bushels; barley, 74.4O0,787 bushels;
rye, 13,936,O10 bushels These stocks
represent the following percentages
of the corresponding stocks on De-
cember 1, 1917: Corn, 1890 per
cent; oats, 94.6 per cent; barley,
HOS per cent; rye, 1912 per cent.
Stocks of Flour.
The commercial stocks of -four and
corr meal, as reported for the survey,
We're: Wheat -four, white, 6,397, 490
bcrrels; whole wheat and graham
flour, 1888 barrels; rye flour, &c.,
107 barrels; corn flour, 51,676,9ll
pounds; corn meal, 72,825,916 pounds:
,buckweat flour, 13,54S,3O9 pounds.
mixed flour, 26,623,397 pounds. These
stocks represent the following per-
centages Of the stocks on hand a
year ago: Wheat flour, white, 1904
per cent; whole wheat and graham
flour, 249.1 per cent; rye -four 21bS
per cent; corn meal. 227.8 per cent;
buclkwheat flour, 1904 per cent;
mixed flour, 2435 per cent
Stocks of Selected ccmrDoditiss.
Elevators, warehouses, and whole
sale dealers reported stocks of beans
amounting to 7,2S5.713 bushels, while
wholesale grocers and warehouses
reported the following commodities
ard IT. the amounts indicated: Rice,
49,99S,S10 pounds; rolled oats, 3d.
4S9,666 pounds; canned salmon, &C.,
S93,624 pounds; canned tomatoes,
245, 4S9,204 pounds; earned corn,
111,356,010 pounds; sugar, 164,356,6 1914
pounds. These stocks represent the
following percentages of the CORES
ponding stocks or. hard December 1,
1917: Beans, 154.5 per cent; rice,
62.6 per cent; rolled oats, 1867 per
cent; canned salmon, 943 per cent:
canned tomatoes, 1903 per cent; can
ned corn, 1895 per cent; sugar, 1850
per cent.
Stocks of Milk.
Stocks of condensed ard evaper-
ated milk were reported by conden-
series, coldstorages, warehouses and
wholesale grocers, as follows: Con-
densed milk, 49,S78,129 pounds:
evaporated milk, 146,757,968 pounds.
The holdings of condensed milk re.
ported for December 1, 1918, rep
resented 1877 per cent of the
stocks held by the same firms year
earlier, while the holdings of evapor-
ated milk represented 1913 per cent
of the December, 1917, stock.