The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-14
BIG INCREASE IN WHEAT STOCKS.
Total Nearly Three Times as Large as
Last Year

Commercial stocks OF wheat reported
in survey made by the department Of
agriculture for May /, 1919, amounted to
9S,s73,l 47 bushels. These holdings. re-
ported by 1857 firms elevators, ware
houses, grain mills and wholesale deal
ers were nearly three times as large as
the stocks held by the same firms year
earlier, the actual percentage being 2S9T
per cent Of the 1918 stocks The figures
refer to stocks actually reported and do
not represent the total commercial stocks
of the country, nor do they include stocks
on farms.
The commercial visible supply figures,
as published by the Chicago Board Of
Trade for May 3, 1919, show 49,502, 900
bushels of wheat, as against 2,777 900
bushels a year earlier. The correspond.
ing Bradstreet figures show 55,247 900
bushels, as against 7,572000 for 1915 As
compared with the same date last year.
these figures, as we'll as those obtained
by the more extensive survey, show a
very great relative increase in CONNER
cial stocks Of wheat on May l 1919
Other Cereals, Flour and Corn Meal.
The commercial stocks of other cereals
reported for May l. 1919, according to
the departments statement, were as fol-
lows; Corn, 10000 ,3l6 bushels; oats, 50,-
1871 ,24o bushels; barley, 25060, 63s bush
els rye, 2l736,760 bushels. These stocks
represent the following percentages of
the corresponding stocks on May j 1915.
Corn, 30 per cent; oats, 1916 per cent !;
barley, l74l per cent; rye, 4ls.2 per
cent.
The commercial stocks of -four and
corn meal, as reported for the survey,
were as follows: Wheat flour, white,
6,00S,529 barrels; whole wheat and gra-
ham -four, 45,S6s barrels; barley -four,
24,00l barrels; rye -four 300 barrels;
corn flour, l05Ss ,306 pounds; corn meal,
49,763,0l9 pounds; buckwheat -four, 3D.
500 $50 pounds; mixed -four, 45,697 ,035
pounds These stocks represent the fol.
lowing percentages Of the stocks on hand
year ago: Wheat flour, white, llS0
per cent; whole wheat and graham -four,
AL per cent; barley -four "a per cent !;
rye flour, 4l.8 per cent? corn flour, 1921
per cent; corn meal, 37.6 per cent; buck
wheat -four, 3794 per cent; mixed flour,
1854 per cent.
Stocks Of Selected Commodities.
Elevators, warehouses and wholesale
dealers reported stocks of dry edible
beans amounting to 5,s62,5l5 bushels,
while wholesale grocers and warehouses
reported the following commodities in
the quantities indicated; Cleaned rice,
l03, S33,5s6 pounds; rolled oats, 4557s,-
2l4 pounds canned salmon, ll5,5437Sl
pounds; canned tomatoes, 22S 1877, OIL
pounds; canned corn, 9s,S43,065 pounds /;
sugar, l92,395,926 pounds These stocks
represent the following percentages Of
the corresponding stocks on hand May !,
1918: Beans, 1901 per cent; rice, l25 per
cents rolled oats, Ills per cent; canned
salmon, 1867 per cent; canned tomatoes,
1901 per cent; canned corn, 1859 per
cent; sugar, s4.7 per cent.
Stocks of condensed and evaporated
milk were reported by condensaries, cold
storages, warehouses and wholesale gro
GERS as follows Condensed milk, 33,464,-
07S pounds; eyaporated milk, 90,752, 523
pounds. The holdings Of condensed milk
reported for May l, 1919, represented
sos per cent of the stocks held by the
same firms year earlier, while the
holdings Of eyaporated milk represented
SIS Z per cent of the Nav 1918 sfoek