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Show Grain and Provisions. CHICAGO, May 23. Bearish crop advices ad-vices from the Northwest, In addition to liberal shipments from Russia caused weakness in wheat today. Compared Com-pared with Saturday's final figures, July wheat shows a loss of hnlC a cent. Corn is unchanged. Oats are a shade lower. Provisions are up 2 to 12 o. For a brief period at the start the wheat market had a firm undertone. The llrmnesK was due mainly to extremely ex-tremely small local receipts, only two cars being Inspected Into store hero today. to-day. Initial sales In July were unchanged un-changed to c higher, at S7Ti to SSc. Ideal weather conditions and curprls;-Ingly curprls;-Ingly heavy shipments from Russia asserted as-serted influence, however, before the session had made much progress, and on scattered selling the market became easier. Weukness of tho May delivery afTected the deferred futures and was a prominnt bear Influence. Great Improvement Im-provement was claimed In the condition condi-tion of the winter crop. One report from Kansas City was especially optimistic, opti-mistic, the assertion , being made that threshing will be begun In Kansas within thirty days. The report further declared that early wheat from that section would be rushed to Chicago in preference to Gulf ports. The market became quite weak during the latter part of the session, part of the weakness weak-ness being due to selling by those who Saturday bought on the reported big casli sales at Minneapolis. BearlvSh crop advices from the Northwest had much to do with the Increased depression depres-sion pervading the jilt near the close. Tho market finished weak near the bottom, bot-tom, July being at 87c, uftcr touching S7S7c. May ranged between 97 and 99c, nnd closed at 9So. , Clearances of wheat and flour wero , equal to 127,500 bushels. The amount on passage Increased 32S.O0O bushels, while the visible supply decreased 3,927,000 bushels. Primary receipts were 337,000 bushels, compared with J35.G00 bushels a year ago. Minneapolis, Du-luth Du-luth and Chicago reported receipts of 235 cars, against 129 lat week and 313 cars a year ago. In view of the number-of bear factors fac-tors manifested throughout the session, the corn market held up remarkably well. Tho market closed about at Saturday's Sat-urday's final figures. July opened to 2,c lower at 48 to 4Sc, sold between be-tween 47 and 484Sc, closing at 48-4Se. Local receipts were' 175 cars, H of contract grade. Excellent weather and predictions of liberal receipts tomorrow had a depressing de-pressing influence on the oats market, a bearish sentiment being manifested throughout the entire session. Weakness Weak-ness In other grains, also tended to bring out sales from scattered sources. After opening yc lower at 3Sc, July ranged between 38 and aS'A'.ISc. closing at 3S3Sc. Local receipts were 95 cars. Provisions were caricr early in the day, as a result of heavy receipts of hogs and lower prices at the yard-3. The demand for all products, however, was quite active and offerings were readily absorbed, resulting In a fair advance. Packers were credited with moderate purchases. July pork closed with a gain of 12c. at $11.07. Lard nnd ribs were each up 25c at $0.32 nnd $6.40, respectively. re-spectively. Estimated receipts for tomorrow. to-morrow. Wheat, 15 cars; corn, 312 cars; oats, 210 cars; hogs. 1S.O0O head. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES '""tiw. jjgn. jugu. low. wiose. Wheat No. 2 May 99 99 97 OS July (old) 69 Sfi $ S8 July (new) 8S ssii $7 87 Sept (old) &: S2 S2 82 bept (new) ....... $1 81 S0 S0 Corn- No. 2 Ir.y 47 47 47 I7", July 4S .,1S 47 48 September 47 47 17 47 Oats No. 2 .. , May 41 41 10 4C July S9 3S 3S 3S September 30 30 30U 30 Mess pork-July pork-July .. .10.90 11.1010.85 11.07 September 11.22 11.32 11 10 11 CO Lard-July Lard-July G.25 G.35 G.22U G r-j September C.42 G.50 G. 10 $.10 Short ribs-July ribs-July G.S5 G.42 6.30 G. 10 September G.50 6. GO G. 17 6.57 CASH QUOTATIONS. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour dull and easy. No. 2 spring wheat. 553-99c; 553-99c; No. 3. SG3S7o: No. 2 red. Sl.05lrl.0G. No 2 corn, 49c; No. 2 yellow, 50350c No 2 oats. 403 HI -': No. 3 white. IlffI3i No. 2 rye, 77c. Good feeding barley, 3533Sc; fair to cholco malting. 4557 5Gc. No. 1 flaxseed, flax-seed, $1 00; No. 1 Northwestern. $1.09. Prime timothy seed. $3.03. Mess pork, per barrel. S11.0OTHl.05; lard, per 100 pounds.. 56.2530.27; short ribs sides (loose), ?G.253 G.37; short clear sides (boxed). 5G.2536.FiO. Whisky, basis of high wines, $1.28. Clover, contract grado. $10.75. RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS. Articles. RecptB. Shmts. Flour, barrels 23.000 22,500 Wheat, bushels G.000 21,700 Corn, bushels 171.000 266.G00 Oats, bushels' 143.GCO 111.100 Rye. bushels 4,000 4.300 Barley, bushels V--- 32.C00 10,5(0 PRODUCE EXCHANGE. On the produce exchange tho butter market mar-ket was easy; creamery. 143 ISc: dairy, 12-ij; 17c. Eggs easy, at murk, eases included, 15315!iC. Cheese easy: new goods, 7?79c. Visible Grain Supply. NEW YORK. May 23. Tho visible supply sup-ply of grain May 21, as compiled by tho New York produce exchange, la as follows: fol-lows: Wheat, 21.111,000 bushels; decrease. 3,-$27,000. 3,-$27,000. Corn, G.1GI.0M boshels; decrease, 1.031,-000. 1.031,-000. Oats, G.242.000 bushels; decrease. S3 1,000. Rye. 920.C00 bushels; decrease, 53,000. Barley, 2,170.000 bushels; decrease, 121,-000. 121,-000. Condition of the Treasury. WASHINGTON, May 23. -Today's statement state-ment of the treasury balances In the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reservo In the division of redemption, redemp-tion, shows: Available cash balance, $105.-1 $105.-1 3SG.2GS; gold, 5G3.S39.19I. |