Show GBAZKT AID PHOVTSIONS Market Closed Weak December p Wheat 95 Decline In Corn Chicago Dee 2 Wheat had a weak opening principally because Liverpool fu ly reflected the decline of the day before at Chicago I opened at from to iid decline Paris at the same d time was reported somewhat higher for f the day Northwestern receipts were still too heavy to encourage buying The most important consideration for the time however was the hostile attitude at-titude to the market assumed by some of the heaviest of the local scalpers That a important because of the almost al-most total absence of orders to commission com-mission houses from outside The opening open-ing price for May was 9090 a decline de-cline of I mi yesterday and it de clinod to DOe ij > fore i showed any signs of improvement December was weak opening 1hc lower at 9G and declining to 95 with hardly a sign of support The Atlantic port clearances amounted amount-ed In wheat and flour to 913000 bushels 742000 bushels of which was In the shape of wheat The primary market receipts were for the first day in some months substantially below the 1000 000 bushel market the quantity for the day being 853000 bushels but for last j year the total was only 425000 bushels A cablegram from Argentine was reported re-ported as saying that crop prospects were less favorable but another wa received stating that harvest in more northern sections of the country were progressing favorably A temporary spurt wap caused by the heaviness of the Atlantic port clearances clear-ances of wheat and flour and the much smaller total in the western primary market receipts than the recent average aver-age May advanced on this to 91 But local bears soon disposed of the large clearances by the claim that they would swamp the people they were going to A report from Minneapolis to the effect that the with the yards there were filling up cars which would be loaded with wheat for Chicago caused great weakness late in the day May selling a low as 89 New Yorks report of 60 loads for export ex-port and some help from the December bulls caused a reaction to 90c near the close May winding up at 8990c December De-cember however got no support and closed lc lower at 95 Corn was more active and very weak closing at c decline Oats were weaker and closed almost at the bottom with a lAc loss Provisions were dull and did not move over c over yesterdays closing quotations quo-tations The leading futures ranged a follows WHEATNO I Open High I I Low I Close Dec 196 96 1i15 i5 Jan 19f I May 1 90 90 8Y 8790 CORNNo2 I Open I High I Low I Close Dec 25281Nhfl25 May 29 29U 2S ½ 2S2S OATSNO 2 OATNo2 I Open I HlghLow I 1 Close DFc7 T20i 20 20 i 2020 May I 2222 U 22 j212l I 21 MESS PORK Per Bbl I Open I HIgh I Lw I Close Dec 5 Jan JS15 S15 ½ 812 815 May ISA2 ½ 1821 S37k S40 UAKD ier 10U Lbs I Open I High I Low I Close Dec 110 410 405 110 Jan 425 425 1405 ½ 121 May J4 47 43 1440 SHORT RIBS Per 100 Lbs = T Open 4 High 1 Low I Close Dec 1415 Jan 1420 420 415 417 I May 430 1432 437 430 |