Show GRAIN AND PROVISIONS Chicago May 18 Closing quotations today showed a loss Expectation of marked improvement In the crop show showing showing ing was general because of the warm weather In all directions Reports of mother another cargo of bushels of wheat to come to Chicago front from Du Duluth luth caused a drop near the close Act Active ire ive futures finished lil cents lower and May tay 3 cent Corn showed a decline of 11 cents oats 3 and provisions cents The higher Liverpool quotations were regarded as merely a reflection of a temporary spurt here An attempt was made at one stage to bull the mar market market ket on reports of big clearances from Boston but investigation showed that the wheat shipped from there was ex cx exclusively Canadian Then the selling pressure was renewed and particularly from the northwest Duluth stocks were shown to have been decreased bushels In two days A dispatch from Dallas declared that Texas would raise bushels and that the harvest would begin in eight days Al Almost Almost most simultaneously information come that durum wheat was 23 cents lower than spring wheat at Duluth showing total lack of foreign demand Selling was most inest persistent arid and the support poorest in the final dealings One rea reason reason son was a telegram asserting that re reports reports ports from every county in North Da Dakota Dakota kota showed almost without exception practically no damage and that condi conditions conditions apparently were about perfect September sold from LOl g to 1001 and closed weak at 1003 a net loss of 11 cent Bright warm weather and larger of offerings offerings from interior dealers farmers made corn quite weak Demand was poor both for cash and futures Sep September September ranged from to and closed weak at the bottom figures of the day No 2 yellow finished at Oats 64 Fluctuations In the September option were between 3 and 38 with the close at the latter price a loss of Shipments of meats were very light and unsatisfactory In consequence pork scored a net decline of to lard 7 71 to and ribs 10 cents The leading futures ranged as fol follows follows lows WHEAT l I Open I High 4 Low I Close May 1138 1131 1121 July 1033 1031 1021 1021 Sept 1001 1002 CORN CORNI I Open I High I Low I Close May July 21 61 Sept 62 Dec OATS I Open High I Low I Close May 42 42 42 July Sept Dec 1391 MESS PORK Per barrel I Open Oper I t High I Low I lose Close July 2325 2325 2300 2310 Sept 2315 LARD Per pounds I Open High I Low Close July 1280 Sept 1265 1265 SHORT Per pounds I Open 1 I High I Low I Close July 1270 Sept 1270 1270 1260 Cash Ci quotations were as Flour Firm Rye No 2 78 Barley Feed or mixing fair to choice malting Flax Seed No 1 southwestern 1941 No 1 northwestern 2041 J Timothy Seed Nominal Clover 1125 Mess Pork Per bbL Lard Per lbs Ibs 1305 Short Ribs Sides loose 1275 Sides Short clear boxed 1400 Grain Statistics Statistic Total clearances of wheat and flour were equal to bushels Primary receipts were bushels compared with bushels Estimated receipts for tomorrow Wheat 30 cars corn 49 cars oats cars hogs head |