Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — SUPPLY OF GRAIN. [ARTICLE]

SUPPLY OF GRAIN.

Stocks in Chicago Elevators Greatly Exceed Those of a Year Ago. The stocks of grain in Chicago elevators last Saturday evening were 25,385,000 bushels of wneat, 1,-101,000 bushels of corn, 1,297,00) bushels of oats, 148,001 bushels of rye, and 1(1,000 bushels of barley. Total, 28,247,090 bushels of ail kinds of grain, against 21,3 if,ooo bushels a year ago. For the same date the Secretary of the Chicago Beard of Trade states the visible supply of grain in the l nited S ates and Canada as 66,949,000 bushels of wheat. 3,151.000 bushels of corn, 7,204,000 bushels of oats, 30’,00 i bushels of rye, and £69,000 bushels of barley. These figures are larger than the corresponding ones a week ago by 2,178,000 in wheat and 114.000 in t orn. The visible supply of wheat for the corresponding week a year ago decreased 059,000 bushels.