Prices for flour reached the highest for three years. Opening at $3.65 per bag for October delivery, the price went up to $2.7425; November, $3.695 $8.1625; December $3.715 to $3. January, $3.77 to $3475; Pebruray, $3,815 "to '$8.8025; March, $3.82 10 $3.9025. "According to a Chinese merchant, ie Increase in prices was noted recently when large quanti were bought for Manchuria and the North, "Although these purchases have ceased Chinese concerns mostly are. using native products, as very little foreign has been imported, owing to high prices and shortly As present supplies are only sufcie for four or five months, and net crops of wheat will not be harvested for another nine months, the prices were pushed up considerably. Wheat prices. also registered increase:
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