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Show WHEAT H Oil IMPROVED DEMAND Influence of- the Government Govern-ment Crop Estimates Overcome. CHICAGO, Sept. . Urgerrit demand from millers and shippers more than offset off-set in the wheat market today the bearish bear-ish effect of the crop report from Washington. Wash-ington. Closing prices were unsettled, ittic to Uc net higher, with September at 6)e and December at 9;iq"SL'ic. Corn gained iig'Se to lie. oats finished unchanged un-changed to ic higher, and provisions down 5c to I'Oc. Wheat at first showed a decided downward down-ward bent, the result of selling orders Infftien.ed by the government estimates pointing to a larger vletd lhan a majority of traders had looked for. Wet weather, however, and steady cables led some of the principal shorts to cover, and left the market In a position to respond quickly to anv further bullish development. Evidence Evi-dence later that Ohio millers were seeking seek-ing shipments from here, and that offers of wheat to arrive In Chicago from the counlrv were next to nothing, appeared to be all that was needed to start prices decidedly up grade, especially as European Euro-pean bids were said to be close to a working work-ing liasls and. moreover, foreign exchange Inul taken an upward Jump. Bulls In wheat put n good deal of emphasis em-phasis todav on assertions that the government gov-ernment figures .m the winter crop took no aooount of the serious damage which private experts generally had held to have been done by the wet harvest. Gossip was current that the Washington Washing-ton authorities would yet make a revision wblctl might give Ihe figures on the total yield In the United States this season a much more bullish aspect. Storm damage and fear of frost gave strength to corn. The bearish crop report re-port from Washington was Ignored except ex-cept In the early part of the session. Oats appeared to be ruled chiefly by the action ac-tion of com. Specialists said the government govern-ment report had been discounted beforehand before-hand almost in full. Provision! went to the lowest level so far this season. Stop-loss selling on the nan of the discouraged holders met with no substantial check until after prices had undergone a sharp break all around. 11ANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. wheat Open. mat,. I.. rloe. Sept. J M'i . !S ' -2 M M M somT to w . DeV " t- sept eosi ... D,e H CASH QUOTATIONS. Wheal. No. 1 red. ll.rV44Tl 07 : No. 5 hard, Jl.0f.Httl 07. Porn No 2 Telle . TTtctr ; others nominal. Oats' No. S "white. 13iJ34V4c; atondard. old. 40.-: etandnid. nee-. IT4BtTVo. Uve. No. C. SIVtttSSc. BarleT. 5n4j0tv. Timothy. IS.50trR 00. florer. IS MVtfl3.;5. Fork. JI2.00. l.s.d. .n'.. Ribs. I7.ir91i.ll. |