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Show CORN MEAL CHEAPER. Attempted Corner Turned Out Badly for the Buyers. Cornmeal was the only product handled by the grain and flour merchants which came In for a change at the mooting of the exchange yesterday afternoon. Instead In-stead of paying from 51.90 to 52 a hundred, which has been the price for some time past, dealers may now obta.'n cornmeal at from $1.70 to $1.80. Tho decline, of course, is due to the large harvest of corn In the. Eastern States, which will shortly be put on tho market, and brokers brok-ers who have bought up quantities of last year's cornmeal In tho hopo of advancing advanc-ing the price, Hnd It necessary now to unload un-load beforp tho new cornmeal is put on the market. At tho mooting of tho exchange yesterday yester-day five carloads of oats, seven carloads of wheat and three carloads of bran changed hands at Uic prevailing market prices. |