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Show DEPRESSION III CORNIRE CIirCAGO, Sept. SO. Corn averaged lower in price today owing chiefly to weakness of the hog market and to depression de-pression of foreign exchange. The close was unsettled, at the same as yesterday's finish to four cents clown, with December $1.24 to $1.2-1 and May ?1.22i,i to $1.22. Oats closed at 1-eent decline to a shade advance and provisions varying from $B.7o off to a rise of 45c. Bearish sentiment dominated corn most of the day, although the break in hog values was counterbalanced somewhat by assertions that corn had of late declined to a greater relative extent than hogs. The downward tendency of foreign exchange ex-change was likewise more or less offset by rains which, might delay tho curing of the new corn. Hesides a temporary bulge in corn prices took places about midday, induced by hasty assumptions on the part of a number of traders that the Edge bill to facilitate exports would soon become a law and that war-time prohibition pro-hibition would he repealed. There was much belated liquidating at the last, however, how-ever, especially in the September delivery. deliv-ery. Oats merely paralleled the action of corn. Month-end selling on a small scale made September pork drop $R.7S. Packers' buying of lard, though, steadied the provision pro-vision market as a whole. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn Dec $1.2414 $1.25 $l.23ti $1.34 Way 1.22 1.23 1.21 1.22', Oats Dec RO-ii .70''a .60 .007.1 72 .73,11, .71ys .72 Pork Oct 84. RO 34.75 34.80 Jan 33.05 33.65 33.00 33.25 Lard Oct 20.00 27.35 20.00 27.30 Jan 22.40 22.77 22.40 22.70 Itibs Oct IS.flO 19.00 18.80 18.85 Jan 17.95 18.10 17.90 18.30 CASH QUOTATIONS. Corn No. 2 mixed, $1.42''i.l.43; No. 2 yellow, $1.42(7)1.44V,. Onts No. 2 -white, HV.c; No. 3 -white, 08 71c. live No. 2, $1.42. Bnrlev. $1.23ifil.30. Timothy, $8.50(311.25. Clover, nominnl. Pork, nominal. Lard, $27.35. Bibs, $18.50. |