Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-07-08
COMMERCIAL STOCKS
or WHEAT REPORTED
IN SURVEY MADE
Visible supply Flgures Compared with
Other Cereals; Flour and Corn
Heal Selected COmmodIGies

Commercial stocks of wheat report
ed IN survey made by the Depart
ment of Agriculture for June /. 1918.
amounted 10 51,392.S9S bushels. These
holdings we're reported BY 1854 firms.
comprising elevators. warehouses.
grain and AOur mills, and wholesale
dealers, and represented nearly three
times the stocks held BY the same
firms on June /, 1918, the actual per-
centage being 2746 per cent. OF the
1918 stocks The figures refer ID
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 Hg-
ures. al published by the Chicago
Board Of Trade for May 81. 1919, show
%. 702 900 bushels OF wheat. as against
IL 900 year earlier. The cor
responding BradsEreet figures show
q. $4,000 bushels. as against 1879 900
for 1918. Az compared with tho same
date last year, these figures, as well
al those obtained by the more extern
sive survey, show very great reia-
tive Increase Ia commercial stocks Of
wheat on June ]. 1919
Other Cereals, Flour and Germ Meal
The commercial stocks OF other GER
eals reported for June l, 1919. accord
ing I'd the departments statement
were as follows Corn, 1885, SITS
bushels; oats, 1870. 543 bushels bar
ley, 2O,043.3 75 bushels rye. 14,624.33I
bushels. These stocks represent the
following percentages Of tho CORES
p0nding stocks on June /. 1915: Corn
476 per cent. oats, sO.6 per cent;
barley, 207.2 per cent rye, 3461 per
cent.
The commercial stocks Of fiour and
corn meal, ais reported for the sur
vey, were III follows: Wheat -four
white, 6,65s, O51 barrels; whole wheat
and graham -four. 32s0G5 barrels; bar
ley -four, 1882 barrels: rye Hour,
165,243 barrels; corn -four. S,12S,42
pounds: corn meal. A, 2s7 ,627 pounds;
buck wheat -four. 20.351 $50 pounds;
mixed -four, i5.2Ss,67s pounds These
stocks represent the following percen-
tages OF the stocks on hand year
ago: Wheat liour, white, 1913 per
cent. whole wheat and graham -four,
81 per cent: barley -four, 46 per
cent; rye Hour, al per cent: corn
Hour, I4.3 per cent; corn meal, 2s.I
per cent: buckwheat -four 1868 per
cent mixed -four. 1885 per cent.
Stocks Of Selected Cemmodlfies
Elevator, warehouses. and wholesale
dealers reported stocks BIZ dry edible
beans amounting to 5.2sI, $50 bushels,
while wholesale grocers and ware
houses reported the following COM
nodities ID the quantities indicated
Cleaned rice, 9O,OIs, sST pounds roll
ed cats, S7,64I,123 pounds; canned
salmon. 40 ,202, 6A2 pounds; canned
tomatoes, l9s .ssS $50 pounds: canned
corn. S6.64s,754 pounds; sugar. 225.
3ls.574 pounds These stocks repre-
sent the following percentagesso the
corresponding stocks on hand June 4,
1918: Beams, S6.5 per cent. rice. ss.
per cent: rolled oats. TIT per cent
canned salmon, 120.1 per cent: cann
ed tomatoes. 20a.s per cent; canned
corn, 1918 per cent: sugar. 9s,4 per
cent,
Stocks of condensed and evaporated
milk were reported BY condensaraes,
cold storages. warehouses. and whole
sale grocers. as follows Condensed
milk. ss.ssS,52S pounds evaporated
milk. lIo.ISs. O55 pounds The hold
ings Of condensed milk reported Tor
June !, 1919. represented 1855 per
cent. of the stocks held " the same
firms rear earlier, while the bold
Ings on evaporated milk represented
7s,7 per cent 81 the Jane 1, 1918.
stock.