Show PRICES OF FOU FLOUR CONTINUE TO SUe H STEADY V Cost and Scarcity of Declared to Be the th t Cause J 0 S Speet I I I Minneapolis May 8 Tho N No f em orn or Miller Uler this week weak Norh I ck says gays Fl io continued Four I their advance list last lat i w I spring and hard winter Inter n 15 ahead of oC patents ej II I April 24 24 c Avri CIa I about steady but C CI I somewhat Wheat Theat mim nil pr I I high with wih spot wheat or of I I The Tho milling flour quality demand generally was waa fair Calr bard hard D parti I ly for export grades grain corporation made Atou Althour no S flour chases for lor export lost last lal wc week for th th for flour our for oversea oversea week I grown gron materially of oC late late Unde circumstances however exports aro are riot not likely to show 81 significant Increase as a tb the rn JOs an any markets are still vi j closed to private trading 11 The course of or prices for tor top ton In recent rEcent weeks leeks Is Indicated Indicted In th fhi 1 lowing table showing average lions at four average q representative lons m two western and two eastern I Hard Week Weel ended Spring ended Spring May la 1 winter 1545 1430 UG i I April Apri 24 5 1530 1410 I 1 April Apri 17 1500 1390 1399 I April Apri 10 1430 HO 1340 April Apri 3 1430 1330 I March 27 i 1400 HOO 1240 1310 March 20 O 1356 1305 Feed prices continued firm very er light offerings and a a Cr mand inane Bran Dran has been particular and there theo Is little or no differ now between bran and standard s Flour run Ui stan standard ar and red dog doS Is bran An approximate average q tion ton for tor bran of or all al types In both boll bothem bothern em ern and western markets as re cc ren May 1 is 57 75 per ton which pares with wih the following 4 I April 24 21 57 10 March 1 I April 17 1 Feb 1 I April Apri 1 O Jan 1 I The Tho ho transportation situation r ra ras re reas a as ha bred bad n as ever e and buyers buers are ar concerned with wih securing delve deliver old purchases Embargoes contin prevent ent the thc shipment of oC flour at points and which Is still sti more mor f ous to prevent the delivery delver of to th the mills mis As a result rr many are arc partially or wholly closed cose although the they have hao plenty of I bou bought ht and enough orders on onI I books to keep them thorn moderately I I Thero There has probably never before beor a time when with ample mple wheat wheat in sight the mills mis have ban haveIt f fit It so difficult to secure enough to keep running Ca Ch Cash h Wheat b t Strong It I goes without saying sarin unde unde circumstances that cash cah been exceedingly strong On strone sales of dark northern spring and 2 were made in 35 while No o. o 2 red whit selling in St St. St Louis Leuis at sas sas City reported No 2 hard bard hud selling at at the close week eek The flour output u appears appeT to t bi hI St stationary or ur slight gain ln over oer tho week bet Oklahoma Kansas Oklahoma group group o of 0 hardter hard binl hu ter wheat mills mis reported an anast last ast week amounting to 49 9 pr prof pr prof of capacity as 3 against 44 H per ce ctt e week before the Ohio alo valley soft Boft ter wheat wheat mills mis reported a A 28 3 pe pet output output as against 2 22 and the the wheat ml mills 38 8 per ter er cent as a s agal difficulties Transportation app appt preclude an any material change I output situation for the present As A for the domestic demand demand i spotted and irregular with a n go goof groc of oC inquiry and a fair fall amount of ot g bin b bIn bt in small smal lots for tor prompt delivery immediate future is so utterly that no one ono wants want to ton any n more flour our tha than he nee need stocks havo have unquestionably been ben depleted during during- the past six or past weeks of or light buying and still 11 de deliveries i eries and many buyers bUjer M MIng arb arbing D the tho Ing themselves forced into to toby by their Immediate Immediato needs need on Market Guesses as a to what wheat t ninety days do 0 In the coming coming- coming varied and unstable as as ever I 1 hoped that ane som something more mor dewill de dewil dej will result from the tho conference by wil Mr r. r Barnes for Friday of or this in Chicago o. o M Meanwhile pre run all the way from a marked d c as asto to an 1 advance of ot 23 3 per b S be-S bt the latter later being strength strengthened renewed activity of wh wheat t ex eXP en who appear to be buying buyinG consider quantities |