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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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COMMERCIAL MOVEMENTS OF 
ARY, 
Decreased receipts of wheat at 
leading interior markets, and small- 
er shipments of flour are the leading 
features of the commercial move- 
ment of breadstuffs during January 
of the present year, as reported by 
the Bureau of Statistics of the De- 
partment of Commerce and Labor. 
For the first time also the monthly 
exports of wheat, were less in quan- 
tity than the exports of corn. 
Grain receipts during January at 
15 important markets, 69,403,731 
bushels, show but little variation 
from the January figures of the pre- 
ceding year and the January aver- 
age for the preceding 5-year period. 
The total inbound movement was 
made up of 16,494,484 bushels of 
wheat; 29,482,533 bushels of corn; 
16,487,593 bushels of oats; 6,187,041 
bushels of barley; and 752,080 bush- 
els of rye. As compared with corre- 
sponding 1910 figures for the more 
important grains, the receipts of 
corn, oats, and barley, show larger 
totals, while those of wheat show a 
sharp decline from the correspond- 
ing monthly total. It should be 
stated though that this decline is 
not a peculiar feature of the January 
receipts. As a matter of fact wheat 
receipts for all the months of the 
current season beginning with Sep- 
tember were lower than the year be- 
fore, indicating either heavier re- 
ceipts at the smaller markets, for 
which no official reports are had, or 
else larger stocks in the hands of the 
producers. The decrease may be 
said to affect almost equally the 
spring wheat and the winter wheat 
markets. Wheat receipts at these 
markets for the five months of the 
present crop period fell more than 
20 per cent short of like receipts dur- 
ing the 1909-10 season and about 13 
per cent short of the average receipts 
during the same period for the pre- 
ceding five crop seasons. 
receipts at fifteen interior markets 
for the five months, 114, 204, 168 
bushels, were heavier than for the 
same periods in the preceding five 
seasons, the larger receipts for the 
current season corresponding to the 
larger export demand at the Atlan- 
tie ports. The five months’ receipts 
of oats, 90,857,225 bushels, were 
larger, while those of barley, 44,607,- 
655 bushels, smaller than for the pre- 
ceding season. 
The total grain receipts during the 
fi.e months’ period since September 
were 373,746,192 bushels, compared 
with 400,270,433- bushels for the 
same period last year and an aver- 
The corn. 
BREADSTUFFS DURING JANU- 
1911. 
age of over 406 million bushels for 
the preceding five-year period. The 
January shipments of flour from 
thirteen milling centers, 2,755,804 
barrels, likewise show an unfavor- 
able turn as compared with the fig- 
ures of the preceding months, and 
the corresponding January, 1910, 
total. 
The month witnessed increased re- 
ceipts of corn at the four principal 
Atlantie ports, 10,485;721 bushels, 
compared with 7,830,845 bushels re- 
ceived during January, 1910, and 
0,487,814 bushels received during 
January, 1909. Wheat receipts at 
the four Atlantic ports totaled only 
1,240,475 bushels, compared with 
3,934,000 bushels received in Jan- 
uary, 1910, and 4,308,460 bushels re- 
ceived in January, 1909, the exports 
at these ports showing correspond- 
ing declines. As a matter of fact, 
of the total domestic exports of 
wheat for the month, 2,789,151 bush- 
els, almost 75 per cent was shipped 
from the Pacific ports, the exports, 
from Portland, Oregon, and Puget 
Sound points leading those from any 
other custom district, both for the 
month as well as for the cumulative 
period since July, 1910. It should 
be stated though, that the seven 
months’ wheat exports for the pres- 
ent fiscal year, 17,195,728 bushels, 
were practically only one-third of 
the average seven months’ exports 
for the preceding five-year period. 
The largest shrinkage in the wheat 
exports is shown _by the gulf ports, 
particularly Galveston and New 
Orleans. 
The total flour exports for the 
seven months’ period ending Jan- 
uary, 1911, 5,848,749 
about 26 per cent below the average 
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barrels, were © 
exnorts. for the seven months of the — 
preceding. five . years. 
The seven — 
months’ flour exports from the four — 
leading Atlantic ports are given as — 
441,864 barrels, compared with 780,-— 
564 barrels in 1910 
barrels in 1909. 
for the seven months’ period of the 
present fiscal year, 28,935,460 bush- 
els, 
1910 and exceeded in quantity those 
of wheat, though falling econsider- 
ably below lke exports during the 
years prior to 1909, 
barley during the seven months of 
the present fiscal year, 8,229,541 
and 1,917,180 
‘bushels. nroceeded mainly from San 
Francisco and show a large gain 
over like exports in earlier years. 
The value of all breadstuffs ex- 
ported during the seven months of 
the present year was $72,585,445, 
showing a decline of 23 per cent, as 
compared with the figures for the 
preceding year, and a loss of about 
45 million dollars since 1906, not- 
The exports of— 
The corn exports — 
were larger than in 1909 and = 
withstanding the considerable rise in 
prices since that year. 
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