The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-02
Great Increase in Wheat
Stocks Shown

Washington, D. C.-Commercial
stocks of wheat reported in sur
vey made by the Department of Ag-
riculture for May |, 1919, amounted
to 98,873,147 bushels: These holdings.
reported by 9,S75 firms-elevators.
warehouses, grain mills, and whole
sale dealers were nearly three
times as large as the stocks held by
the same firms a year earlies, the
actual percentage being 1897 per cent
OF the 1918 stocks The figures re-
fer to stocks actually reported and
do not represent the total 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 May 5, 1919,
show 49.5O2,OOO bushels OF wheat, as
against 27770OO bushels year earli-
er. The corresponding Bradstreet
figures show 55,247,0OO bushels, as
against 772000 for 1918. AS COM
pared with the same date last year,
these figures, as well as those OBJ
tanned by the more extensive survey,
show a very great relative increase
in commercial stocks of wheat on
May l, 1919.
Other Cereals, Flour and Corn Meal
The commercial stocks of other
cereals reported for May l, 1919, ac-
cording to the departments state
ment, were as follows: Corn, 10000
3l6 bushels; oats, s0787,249 bushels
| barley, 25,060,638 bushels; rye, 2l,736,-
700 bushels These stocks represent
the following percentages of the cor
responding stocks on May l. 1918;
Corn, 80 per cent, oats, $50 per cent
barley, l74l per cent. rye, 4l8.2 per
cent
The commercial stocks of flour
and corn meal, as reported for the
survey, were as follows: Wheat
flour, white, 6,OOS,52o barrels; whole
wheat and graham flour. 45,868 bar.
rels; barley flour, 24,9ol barrels; rye
flour, 2001o6 barrels; corn flour, TO-
588, ,306 pounds; corn meal, 4o,763,OlS
pounds; buckwheat flour, $50
pounds mixed flour, 45,697035
pounds These stocks represent the
following percentages of the stocks
on hand a year ago: Wheat flour,
white 1889 per cent; whole-wheat
and graham flour, AL per cent; bar
ley flour, 34 per cent; rye flour, 4l.o
per cent; corn frour, 32l per cent ;
corn meal. 37.6 per cent; buckwheat
flour, 1914 per cent; mixed flour,
1854 per cent
Stocks of Selected Commodities
Elevators warehouses, and whole
sale dealers reported stocks OF dry
edible beans amounting to 5,862,5 SIS
bushels, while wholesale grocers and
warehouses reported the following
commodities in the quantities indi-
Gated: Cleaned rice, 103,543,7Sl
pounds; canned tomatoes, 228lo7,0l
pounds; canned corn, S8S43,Ns
pounds; sugar, lo2,3o5,926 pounds
These stocks represent the following
percentages of the corresponding
stocks on hand May l, 1913: Beans
1901 per cent; rice. l25 per cent; roll
ed oats. 1ll.8 per cent; canned salm-
on, 1867 per cent; canned tomatoes,
1921 per cent; canned corn, 1869 per
cent sugar, 847 per cent.
Stocks of condensed and evaporat-
ed milk were reported by condensa-
ries. cold storages, warehouses, and
wholesale grocers as follows: Con-
densed milk, 33.464.O78 pounds; evap-
Grated milk, 9O,752,523 pounds. The
holdings of condensed milk reported
for May /, 1919, represented S6.5 PET
cent of the stocks held by the same
firms a year earlier. while the hold
ings of evaported milk represented
85.7 per cent of the May |, 1913 stock