Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — WHEAT FED TO STOCK. [ARTICLE]

WHEAT FED TO STOCK.

Government Report on the Amount Used for This Purpose. The Washington Statistical Bureau of the Agricultural Department estimates the amount of wheat already fed to live stock up to Oct. 30 at 46,030,000 bushels, and the amount to be fed at 29,273,000 bushels, making the total 75,303,000 bushels. These figures are merely the meager estimates from those States where correspondents have complied with the requests of the department, and should not be taken as more than an attempt at approximation of total feeding of wheat from the present supply. The severity and length of the winter will necessarily influence the final findings upon this question. William Dunn bought 60,000 bushels of wheat at Toledo Tuesday to fill a foreign order. Wednesday he tried ro buy some more there, but none was offered for sale. There are more than 85,000,000 bushels in sight in this country and Canada, upward of 26,000,000 bushels being stored in Chicago elevators, and it seejns odd that none of these elevators want to sell any. Millions of bushels of wheat are speculated in every day, but actual cash transactions are insignificant most of the time on the Board of Trade.