The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-31

IN PLENTY
Great Increase. In Wheat Stocks
shown BY Official Reports.

Washington, D. c., May 29.-Com-
mercial stocks in wheat reported In
a survey made by the Department OF
Agriculture for May 1, 1919,
amounted to 9S,S73,147 bushels
These holdings, reported by 1857
firms-elevators, warehouses, grain
mills, and wholesale dealers-were
nearly three times as large as the
stocks held by the same firms year
earlier, the actual percentage being
1897 per cent of the 1918 stocks.
The figures refer to stocks actually
reported and do not represent the
total commercial stocks of the coun-
try, 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 g., 1919,
show 49,5O2, 900 bushels of wheat as
against 2,777,000 bushels year
earlier. The corresponding Brad
street figures show 55,247, 900 bush
els. 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 sur
vev. show a very great relative in
crease in commercial stocks OF
,,,bao+ on Nav 1919
Other Cereals, Flour and Cornmeal.
The commercial stocks of other
cereals reported for May l, 1919,
according to the departments state
ment. were as follows: Corn, 10000
BIG bushels; oats, 5O,7S7 ,249 bush
els; barley, 25,O6O,638 bushels; rye,
81, 1886, 700 bushels. These stocks re-
present the following percentages OF
the corresponding stocks of May l,
1918: Corn, SO per cent; cast 1916
per cent; barley, 174.1 per cent; rye,
Asp per cent.
The commercial stocks of -four and
corn meal, as reported for the sur
vev. were as follows: Wheat flour,
white, 6, OO8,529 barrels; whole wheat
and graham flour, 45,868 barrels;
barley flour, 2OO,196 barrels; corn
-four, 1O,5S8,3O6 pounds; corn meal
40, 763,O19 pounds; buck wheat
flour, 22,526,580 pounds; mixed
-four, 45,697,O35 pounds. These
stocks represent the following per-
centages of the stocks on hand year
ago: Wheat -four, white, 1889 per
cent; whole wheat and graham flour,
44.7 per cent; barley -four, "a per
cent; rye -four; 41.6 per cent; barley
flour, ga per cent; corn flour, 81
per cent; earn meal, 37.6 per cent;
buckwheat -four, 1894 per cent; mix
ed -four, 1854 per cent.
| Stocks of Selected Commodities.
Elevators, warehouses, and whole
sale dealers reported stocks OF dry
edible beans amounting to 1852, 515
bushels, while wholesale grocers and
warehouses report the following COM
modities in the quantities indicated:
Cleaned rice, 1O3, 833,586 pounds;
rolled oats, 45,578,214 pounds; can
ned salmon, 115,543,781 pounds
canned tomatoes, 228, 1901 pounds
canned corn, 9S,S43,O65 pounds; SUI
gar. 1872, 385,926 pounds. These
stocks represent the following per
centages of the corresponding stocks
on hand May /, 1918: Beans, 1871
per cent; rice, 125 per cent; rolled
oats, 111.8 per cent; canned salmon
1867 per cent; canned tomatoes
1891 per cent; canned corn, 1903
per cent sugar SAT- per cent.
Stocks of condensed and evaporat-
ed milk were reported by condenser.
les, cold storages, warehouses, anc
wholesale grocers as follows; Con
densed milk, 33,464,078 pounds
evaporated milk, 9O,725,523 pounds
The holdings Of condensed milk re
ported for May /, 1919, represented
86.5 per cent of the stocks held b!
the same firms a year ago, while tn
holding of evaporated milk represent
ed 85.7 per cent of the May l, 1914
j., stock.