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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



month. While the new crop is slow in its commercial movement at 

 first, consumption in farming neighborhoods commences at once. 

 There is a record in Northwestern Indiana of "grinding new wheat 

 night and day on July 5," and similar records are not infrequent. 

 Were the supply for milling exhausted two months before the 1st of 

 September, there would be no difficulty in obtaining a sufficiency 

 from the new crop. Last year the harvest not only prevented deple- 

 tion of commercial stocks, but added several million bushels in J uly 

 and August, These sources of supply in the later months of the 

 harvest year are larger than consumers and commercial dealers are 

 apt to suppose, and as regards wheat, August 1 would more nearly 

 mark the commencement of the new year. 



The farmers' reserves are mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Dakota. 



The commercial stocks are as follows: 



New York . . . 

 Philadelphia 

 Baltimore . . . 



Buffalo 



Toledo 



Detroit 



Chicago 



Milwaukee . . 

 Saint Paul . . . 

 Minneapolis . 



Duluth 



Saint Louis.. 

 Kansas City . 

 Other points. 

 On lakes 



Wheat. 



Bushels. 



4, 138, 095 



492, 635 



459,458 



2,480,117 



1,743,604 



1,597,903 



11,777,804 



3, 335, 080 



1,008,000 



4,707,939 



7, 393, 748 



997, 169 



4 i6, 135 



1,703,911 



2, 2G8, 353 



Total 1886 | 44, 549, 960 



Total 1885 ! 40, 451, 148 



Total 1884 | 22,464,776 



Total 1883 1 20, 781 , 91 1 



Total 1882 ! 10,577.543 



I 



Corn. 



Bushels. 



2,251,834 



134,314 



499, 191 



8,200 



478,438 



56,223 



4,019,471 



566 



2,055,547 

 161,140 

 822,434 



3,111,263 



13,588,611 

 9,121,508 

 13.(;01,309 

 10,Wi4,2S6 

 a, 40?. 247 



(&) REQUIREMENTS TO SEPTEMBER J. 



The natural requirements for consumption and the actual exports 

 (including flour as wheat) are as follows : 



The wheat exportation, in this statement is largely taken from the 

 new crop in July and August; complicating the exhibit which the 

 resolution requires, and accounting for the apparent (but not real) 

 trenching upon the stocks reported above. For instance, in 1882, 



