Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-03
STOCKS Of WHEAT
TWICE AS LARGE
AS LAST SEASON
All Other Cereals Except Oats
Show Large Increase Over
Last Year; Bean Stocks Are
Also Much Larger,

Washington, ID. c., Jan. The
commercial stocks of wheat re-
ported in a survey maze by the De-
partment of Agriculture for Deem
Der /, 1918, amounted to 9,434, S32
bushels. These holdings. by 1860
firms-elevators warehouses, grain
mills and wholesale dealers-were
more than twice as large as the stocks
held by the same firms a year earli-
or, the actual percentage being 206.1
per cent of the 1917 stocks. The fig
ures refer to stocks actually report
ed aud do not represent the CONNER
cial stocks Of the country nor do
they include stocks on farms
Visible Supply Figures Compared
The commercial visible supply
figures, as published by the Chicago
Board of Trade for the nearest date
November 80, 1919 show III, 56l. =
600 bushels of wheat as against ~,
OBJ, 900 bushels a year ago. Cores
ponding Bradstreet figures for 1918
show 131, 5S4 900 bushels us against
29,633, 600 bushels for 1917. As COM
pared with the same date of last
year, these figures, as we'll as those
obtained by the more extensive sur
vey, show a very great relative in
crease in commercial stocks of wheat
ON December !, 1918.
Other Cereals, Flour and Corn Meal
The commercial stocks of other
cereals reported for December /,
1918, according to the department
statement, were as follows: Corn, 49,
1878 bushels; oats, 61,670,35t
bushels; barley, 74,400,7S7 bushels;
rye, 13,926,010 bushels. These stocks
represent the following percentages
of the corresponding stocks on De-
cember |, 1917: Corn, 1890 per cent;
oats, 94.6 per cent; barley, IDS per
cent; rye, 1912 per cent.
The commercial stocks of flour and
corn meal, as reported for the sur
vey, We're; Wheat flour, white, 6,397,-
400 barrels; whole wheat and graham
flour, 133,1S9 barrels; rye flour,
266, 101 barrels; corn flour, 51,G76,-
911 pounds; corn meal, 72,S25,916
pounds; buckwheat flour, 13,54S,3O9
pounds; mixed flour, 25,623,397
pounds. These stocks represent the
following percentages of the stocks
on hand a year ago: Wheat flour,
white, 1904 per cent: whole wheat
and graham flour. 249.1 per cent;
rye flour, PISS per cent: corn meal,
227.S per cent; buckwheat flour.
22O.4 per cent; mixed flour, 243.5 per
cent.
Stocks of Selected Commodities.
Elevators, warehouses. and whole
sale dealers reported stocks of beans
amounting to 7,2S5,T13 bushels. wnlic
wholesale grocers and warehouses
reported the following commodities
andtin amounts indicated: Dice, 49,
99S,S10 pounds; rolled oats, s0.4S9.-
$50 pounds; canned salmon, 96,S93,-
GA pounds; canned tomatoes, 245,'
4S9,204 pounds; canned corn. 111F'
1885, 10 pounds; sugar, 164, 1856, M
pounds. These stocks represent tie
following percentages of the corrss-
ponding stocks on hand DecembeB /,
1917: Beans, 1915 per cent; nee,
62.6 per cent; rolled oats 1851 Dper
cent; canned salmon 94,3 per dint
canned tomatoes, 1903 per fent;
canned corn. 1873. 5per cent; yIgar,
1256eper cent.
Stocks of condensed ard evaF orat-
cd milk were reported by col dens-
aries, cold storages, warehouses and
wholesale grocers. as folloHr Con-
densed milk, 49S7S.129 pound evap-
Grated milk, 1857 pounds The
holdings of condensed milk 1nported
for December 1. 1918, reH,asented
1877 per cent of the stockstheld by
the same firms a year earlia, while
the holdings of evaporated milk rep
resented 72.s per cent Of the tDecem-
Der. 1917. stock. \