The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-06-06
GREAT INCREASE SAYS REPORT
FROM WASHINGTON
81;
VISIBLE FIGURES GIVEN
Data of Cereals In General As
Laid Out BY the Aggie
Bureau
Especial to Free Press. ]

Washington, d. c., May 30.-Com-
mercial stocks OF wheat reported in
survey made by the department of
agriculture for May 1, 1919, amount
ed to 98.S73,147 bushels. These hold
ings, reported by 1857 firms, eleva-
tors, warehouses, grain mills, and
wholesale dealers, were nearly three
tins as large as the stocks held by
the same firms year earlier, the
actual percentage being 289.7 per
cent of the 1918 stocks. The figures
refer to stocks actually reported and
do not represent the total CONNER
cial 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 3, 1919, show
49, 5O2, 900 bushels of wheat, as against
2,777,000 bushels year earlier. The
correspondending Bradstreet. figures
show 55,247,00) bushels, as against
7,572,000 for 1918. AS compared with
the same date last year, these figures
as well as those obtained by the more
extensive survey, show very great
relative increase in commercial stocks
of wheat on May 1, 1919.
The commercial stocks of other
cereals reported for May 1, 1919, ac-
cording to the departments state
ment, were as follows: Corn, 10000
ZIG bushels; oats. 5O,7S7.24S bushels;
i25 ,06063S bushels, rye, 21,736,760
|, bushels. These stocks represent the
following percentages of the CORES
ponding stocks on May 1, 1918; Corn,
80 per cento oats, 1916 per cent;
charley. 174.1 per cent; rye, 1882 per
,icent.
Z Stocks of other. Cereals.
The commercial stocks of -four
and corn meal, as reported for the
survey, were as follows: Wheat -four,
white, 6,00S,529 barrels; whole wheat
and graham flour, 45,86S barrels;
barley -four, 24,991 barrels; rye -four
2OO,196 tarrels; corn -four, 1O,588,-
3O6 pounds; corn meal, 49,763, 019
pounds; buckwheat flour, 22,526, $50
pounds, mixed flour, 1887 ,035 pounds
These stocks represent the following
percentages of the stocks on hand
"a year ago: Wheat flour, white, 1889
Der cent; whole wheat 'and graham
flour, AT per cent; Farley -four, q. A
per cent; rye flour, 4.16 pen
corn flour, 321 per cent; corn meal,
37.6 per cent; buckwheat flour, 37S,-
a per cent; mixed -four, 1854 per
cent.
Stocks of Selected Commodities.
Elevators, warehouses, and whole
sale dealers reported stocks of dry
edible beans amounting to 5.S62 sis
| bushels, while wholesale grocers and
warehouses reported the following
commodities in the quantities indi-
Gated; Cleaned rice, 103,833,5 86
pounds; rolled oats, 45.57S,214 pounds
canned salmon, 115.534,781 pounds;
canned tomatoes, 22S, OIL pounds,
canned corn, 9S,843, 065 pounds.
These stocks represent the following
percentages of the corresponding
stocks on hand. May 1, 1918; Beans.
1901 per sent; rice, 125 per. cent;
rolled oass, Ills per cent; canned
salmon, 1867 per cent; canned toma-
toes, 1891 per cent; canned corn,
1863 per cent; sugar, 84.7 per cent.
Stocks of condensed and evapor-
ated milk were reported by condens,
aries, cold storages, warehouses, and
wholesale grocers as. follows: Con-
densed milk, 33,464,O7S pounds;
evaporated milk, 9Q752,523 pounds.
The holdings of condensed milk re-
ported for May 1. 1919. represented
S6.5 per cent of the stocks held by
the same firms a year earlier, while
the holdings of evapor ated milk rep
resented S5.7 per cent of the May 1,
1919 stock.