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Show LITTLE BUYING OF HIGH FUR Many Mills Refuse to Quote Because of Inability to Secure Wheat MINNEAPOLIS, May 12. The Nrothwestcrn Miller's review of the . flour trade says: With wheat prices for best grades ranging from three (dollars to three dollars fifty cents flour prices huve gone steadily upward spring patents now averaging close to sixteen dollars per barrel, hard winters, fifteen and soft winters, fourteen: Inqulrcy Is actlye but actual act-ual buying Is in relatively small lotw. Many mills have refused to quote on account of Inability to secure sufficient suffi-cient wheat. Patent flour prices are still about a dollar and a half less than three years ago,. Feed prices have reached a new high point with bran averaging close to sixty dollars per ton. but a decline Is generally ex-j ex-j pected. The flour output though (greatly curtailed by the enr shortage. Is showing gradual improvement. The spring wheat mills last week reporting an output representing forty-two per cent of capacity. the Kansas-Oklahoma hard winter wheat mills fifty-four fifty-four per cent, and the Ohio valley per cent. It is generally believed Friday at the Chicago conference will be able soon to dispell much of the uncertainty which Just now Is disturb-j disturb-j lug the trade. |