Show WHEAT AGAIN FEATURE Small Grain Ruled Active and Strong EXPORTSPRINCIPAL FACTOR Commission Houses Sold Freely Early in the Day but Offerings Wore Eagerly Taken Up on a Temporary Tem-porary Decline Tho Market Rallied Ral-lied and Advanced Steadily tho Close Being at tho Top for Hay Thero Was Heavy Buying of moy Corn Oats Fairly Active Chicago Dec 3 Wheat ruled active an < 1 strong the big exports being the principal bull factor although outside markets were firm cables strong receipts small find In fact all statistics were favorable to time bulls Commission hounon sold freely early In the day but the offerings wcro eagerly taken up anti after a temporary tem-porary decline the market rallied and advanced ad-vanced steadily and tIme close was at Iho top for Maj while December wan Jo under un-der the best llpure The Bontlmont In the pit was oxlromclv bullloh and many shorts ncr compelled to cover thus narrowing nar-rowing the spread between December and May which at ono tIme was undor Ic May opened unchanged to llic higher at 75TiJL7tV to Tfilfcu and there was n steady advance throughout tho day the close being at the top at 77c with a pain of lfflWc Tho feature of the corn market was the heavy buying of May by a prominent local operator who also han a largo long Hue In wheat Offering woro light and nn a result the market had an extremely bullish aspect for that delivery DHicm bier was rather quiet and about steady Time close wan strong May being up cat c-at HOsC Oats were fairly active with prices showing a bullish tendency along with time strength In other grains Tho close wan strong with May jc higher at ic An exceedingly strong demand for provisions pro-visions WHS manifested and In tIme absence ab-sence of any material offerings prices wore higher The clone was strong January Janu-ary pork closed with a gain of Ole ribs woro up 17e lard cloned 17c higher RANGE OP THE LTJADING FUTURES Articles Open High Low Close Wheat No 2 December 71 761I 73I 76 May 7fiV 77 76 77 July 72V5 71s 1 12Ys 7Vi Corn No 2 December 15 K W1A 6SV January J774 IS l 47l U3i May 4Ci ii 43t 41 Oats No 2 December now 311 r 32 31 32 May 33 33 33 33 > Mess Pork January lG32t 1700 IGIC ½ 1GP5 May 1530 1570 1330 1370 Lard December 107 > 104734 10W 104714 January 97Ti 1000 97ii 07fi May S5 9J5 S5 f15 Short Ribs January SS7 S56 R37 ½ SSS May SCO S40 S20 840 J CASH QUOTATIONS Cash quotations were as follows Flour firm with little doing No 2 spring wheat 73 734c No 3 6 573c No 2 red 73t76c > No 2 corn 55c No 2 jellow fcc No 2 cats 32c No 3 white Dfi34c No 2 oe 4c good feeding barley JWfi1 33c fair to choice malting 4Vz5r No 1 Jinx seed 115 No 1 Northwestern 1 22 prime timothy seed J3f5 mess pork per barrel lG87i lard per 100 pounds JI070 rfT1072yi short ribs Bides loose JStSffP S75r dry salted Shoulders boxed S2Slp SM short clear sides boxed JS SS 903 whisky bar o of high wines J132 clover contract grade 10 75 RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS Articles Rccpa Ships Flour barrel J 19C < < 17800 Wheat bushels 73103 8800 Corn bushels 215 KO KOWl Oats bushels K9CCO CC9000 Rye bushels I l4 ft u600 I Barley bushels S04CO 15SOO PRODUCE EXCHANGE On the produce exchange today tIm but tor market was steady creameries lfi1 Sc dairies 17t2oc eggs llrm 21c cheese steady HUiffr c Const Grain San Frnnclsco Dec 9Wlicat > stronger strong-er December 1135 bid May 5130 bid opot firm 140 Barlcv Steady December J12315 asked May L27i bid cash S12V Visible Grain Supply Now York Dec 9 Special cable anti telegraphic communication to Bradstreet s show time following changes In available supply as compared with last accounts Wheat United States and Canada cant of Rockies Increased 1054 < XX bushels afloat for and In Europe Increased < 000 bushels total supply Increased lESIOW bushels Corn United States and Canada cast of Rocklcn increased 1120000 bushels Oats United Stales and Canada east of Rockies decreased S71COO bushels Butter and Eggs New York Dec 9 Butter Receipts MOO packages firm Stalo dairy 2 > if27c creamery extra Sue creamery choice 21TCOc 1 Eggs Receipts 1100 packages firm Slate antI Pennsylvania average best We Western uncandlcd poor to fancy grades 2029c Nev York Sugar Market New York Doc 9All praden of refined sugar wore advanced 10 points today Quotations Quo-tations Raw llrm fair rellnlup 3c ecmmrifmmgii 9test Ic mnolate sugar Sc flltiucl tlrzmu No 6 No 7 li0 No S til5 No m t40 No 10 lZ No Ii tO No 12 2 NO 15 l20 No 11 Il5 tomiictioneis it 51S0 unouimt A 150 cuititiaf v55 crushed 553 lOuVdcrCd 305 gmiumiiiltm cml I5 dtlhjcS I5C |