Show INQUIRY FOR RAW WOOL I I An Encouraging Feature in I the Boston Market I I HOG PRODUCTS ARE DOWN Crop Conditions Have Improved and This Furnished the Keynote of tho Trade and Price MovementAll Agricultural Staples are Lower in Prier and at the Same Time a Perceptible Per-ceptible Demand for Fall Delivery I is Noted Business Failures are Fewer in Number New York July Bradslreels to morrow will say Improved crop con dlllons furnish the keynote I of the trade I and price movement As a result of them nearly all < staple agricultural I producls are lower In price and al the same time a perceptible livening up oC I demand for fall delivery is noted at the I Yest Northwest and South The beginning be-ginning of fall trade Is consequently more clearly visible In the sections mentioned while at the East thc markets I mar-kets are slow to experience ibis Improvement Im-provement and are consequently reasonably rea-sonably dull Bank clearings as yet fall to reflect any perceptible Improvement in dls trlbullon and railway earnings though of large volume are owing to comparisons compari-sons beIng made with cxcepllonally good results last year showing less notable Increases both In gross and net returns An increased cost of repairs betterments fuel and wages are unricd ly responsible for this latter feature because gross receipts for later periods reported show continued though small gains I gainsHog Hog products have gone lower with corn as has also wheat in which continued con-tinued liquidation has been noted with the result of Inducing partial return of the export Inquiry banished from the market by the recent heavy rise On the basis of a crop of 030000000 bushels bush-els the outlook is that an export of I 132000000 to 150000000 bushels will be possible without reducing visible and farm supplies materially from the totals to-tals estimated held on July 1st An encouraging fealuio Is the rather better Inquiry for raw wool at Boston I but manufacturers will not apparently do much until the lightweight season opens Advices from the London sales arc that that market has regained most of the loss shown early In the season 1 Business failures for the week number num-ber 202 against 221 last week 171 in this week a year ago ISS In 1S9S 220 in 1S97 and 2SO in 1SOG Canadian failures for the week number 26 as compared with 19 In this week a year ago |