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BULLETIN 755, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
URBAN MARKETS. 
A large part of the commercial oat crop is first concentrated in a 
few large primary markets, most of which are located in the region 
of large production. Each market has a tributary territory, and 
farm prices in the sections shipping to each market tend to differ in 
proportion to costs of transportation. As this grain business is on a 
highly competitive basis, the price levels in surrounding sections (see 
price levels in North Central States) are comparatively even. 
RECEIPTS, SHIPMENTS, AND CONSUMPTION OF CHIEF MARKETS. 
In Table 4 are assembled data as to receipts, shipments, and 
apparent consumption in the most important grain centers. Allow- 
ing for duplication in reports of receipts, the degree of concentration 
in a few primary markets in the North Central States is manifest in 
comparing the total of receipts with the ''shipments out of counties 
where grown" (Table 2). 
While the great markets such as Chicago, St. Louis, and New York 
consume large quantities of oats, they are also points for concentra- 
tion and reshipment. 
Table 4. — Oats: Receipts and shipments in leading markets. 
[Figures are five-year averages, 1911 to 1915, unless otherwise noted.] 
Market. 
Receipts. 
Shipments. 
Excess, re- 
ceipts over 
shipments. 
EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 
Primary markets: Bushels. 
Chicago ' 121, 774, 000 
St. Louis. 
Minneapolis . 
Milwaukee.. 
Omana 
Peoria 
Kansas City. 
Cleveland... 
Cincinnati. . . 
Duluth 
Indianapolis. 
Louisville . . . 
Toledo 
Detroit 
Totals. 
Other markets: 
Buffalo.... 
New York... 
Baltimore 
Philadelphia . 
Boston 
New Orleans . 
Seattle 
San Francisco . . 
Portland, Oreg. 
PACIFIC MARKETS. 
22,117,000 
21,513,000 
19, 620, 000 
13,266,000 
10, 391, 000 
7,719,000 
7,419,000 
7, 188, 000 
6, 592, 000 
6,242,000 
6,037,000 
4,561,000 
3,823,000 
Bushels. 
104, 622, 000 
15,409,000 
20, 218, 000 
18, 125, 000 
113,599,000 
111,717,000 
6, 203, 000 
1,606,000 
5, 076, 000 
i 6, 626, 000 
2, 405, 000 
4, 240, 000 
3,770,000 
743, 000 
Bushels. 
17, 152, 000 
6,708,000 
1,295.000 
1,495.000 
1,516,000 
5, 813, 000 
2,112.000 
3,837,000 
1, 797, 000 
791,000 
3, 080, 000 
258, 262, 000 
214, 359, 000 
12,685,000 
27,071,000 
15,726,000 
11,143,000 
4,539,000 
3,089,000 
2.344,000 
2,049,000 
2, 286, 000 
( 3 ) 
Exports. 
8,001,000 
12, 310, 000 
3,567,000 
789,000 
700, 000 
764, 000 
259, 000 
l,327,0u0 
45, 596, 000 
(3) 
19,070,000 
3,416,000 
7,576,000 
3, 750, 000 
2, 389, 000 
1,580,000 
1.790.000 
' 9o9, 000 
i In these cases shipments apparently exceed receipts, according to the originai reports. 
2 Allowance should be made for some duplication in receipts due to such causes as intermediate markets 
crediting themselves with through shipments. 
3 No data. 
* Data for 1915 only. 
