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Show BRADSTREET'S REPORT. Sprlna Trade Injured by the Recent Cold Weather. NEW YORK, May 17. Brad street's will say tomorrow; Nature's forces have been u'npropltlous over a wide area of the country and as a result the trade has been adversely affected. af-fected. The weather was too wet or too cold In some places positively too cold for seasonable activity in retail lines, which branch of distribution should now be In full swing. This situation has In turn been reflected re-flected In decreased buying from wholesale whole-sale ealers and jobbers, and there has been little or no reorder business. At the same time country trade Is quiet, for while farmers have not been enabled to do much spring work, they have not been in a mood to make even ordinary purchases. pur-chases. It is felt, however, that retail dealers' stocks are not burdensome and that warm, settled weather will produce better bet-ter results and enable some of the lost ground to bo recovered. On the other hand, orders for fall account ac-count are of a reassuring character. In the dry goods lino recent and presont quiet would in all probability be more sharply felt were It not that deliveries from the mills are not up to the handle, which fact keeps stocks In second hands down to reasonable proportions, thus protecting pro-tecting prices. As It is. some softness In prices of gray print cloths is noted. Business failures in the United States for the week ondlng May 16 were 243, against 260 last week. 235 in the like week of 1911, 225 in 1910, 210 In 1909 and 284 in 1908. Business failures In Canada for the week ending with Thursday number 17., which contrasts with 27 last week and with 19 In the like week last year. Wheat. Including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the w'oek ending May 1(5 aggregated 4.207.513 bushels (Tacoma. Wash., noL reported), against 3,148,595 last week and 3,o60,l08 this woolc last year. For tho forty-six weeks ending May 16. oxnorts are 143.-099.630 143.-099.630 bushels, against 10S.41o.844 In tho corresponding period last year. Com exports for the week arc 62,480 bushels, against 118,811 Inst, week and 932.234 bushels In 1911. For the forty-six forty-six weeks ending May 16. corn exports are 32,793,319 bushels, against 45.567,211 last year. Bank Statement. NEW YORK, May lT.BraJntreot'n bnk cleir-InKd cleir-InKd rport for tlie ireflk ndlnp May 16 oliowi an mnrr5le of 3,J.M5.000. h igalnftt 13.4RS.- 6(3.000 UBt -rook nn.l 13.077.678.000 In the corresponding cor-responding iretk laet year. The following l a list of tho cities: Inc. Dec. Now Yorfc t3.JOS.:03.OO0 1E.8 Chicago 'J.IOS.OOO !. Doiton 169.70,000 12-1 .... Phllodolphla 150.113,000 3.6 SI. LoulB S3.61S.000 8.3 KiDMB Cltr 49.J9I.M0 01 Plttsburc 51.384, 000 C.3 San KMiiclreo .86,O00 .... Baltimore 33.3P7.000 i.t Cincinnati '!-52'S52 '5 MlnncspollB 10.25,000 S.3 .... New Orleans 17.O3,0O0 .... . 19-i Cleveland 32.370.000 13.4 .... Detroit 22.151.000 .... B. Loa Angeles 31.491,000 7.7 .... Omaha 15'H,' 5M I Milwaukee 13.9SO.0O0 3.7 Loulavyic U.m.M) 10.7 .... Atlanta M.1S5.000 13.7 .... Portland. Or 11.873.000 6.7 S-.itll 12.fV7.000 SM .... GL raul 10.4Gti.0O0 10.1 Denver 8,603.000 19.3 Ht. Joseph 7.r,03.000 10.3 SALT LAKE CITY 7.33U.O0O 36.3 Kort Worth fl.n.19,000 20.1 .... Spokane. Waul). 4,723.000 S.S Tacoma 4,20,OOO 7.2 .... Do Moines 4.7C1.OO0 13.1 Dilluth . 3. 776,000 23.3 .... Oakland. Col. ...i 3.3F.0.0O0 S Wichita 3.32S.0O0 1.0 .... pff(rla 3.845,000 S.S New Hbtcb 3.0X4. (W E.fi .... nirmltiBhakn :.9os.noo n.o SIOUX Cltr 3.110.000 29. Worcter . 2,i34,OO0 9.3 Oklahoma 1.492,000 .... S3.0 San DIobo. Cl 2.467,OfKi 49.3 Lincoln 1.H5S.000 18.3 Topeka . 1,R7(".(W) .... 8,4 Sacramento. Cal 1.R85.000 38. 7 .... Cedar Rapldil, la 1.670,000 1P.6 .... Helena 795,000 .... 13.3 Stockton, Cal M0.0CO 13.0 .... Dolne. Ida .',, tins.OOl .... 9.7 Muikogoe, Okla 7.000 .... IS. 4 TiiIbo. Oltla 899,000 Olden, Utah r.Sl.OOO S.S Sioux Kallu. 8. D fiOI.000 32.9 Farso. N. D... 3X,00U 13.K .... Fremont. Neb 223,000 35.6 .... St. LouIr Wool. ST. LOUIS, Mar 17. Wool, sternly. Medium cradox and clothlnr, :0Vj5221c; lltfht fine, ISO 10o; hcary Que, 133 15c; tub washed, 27V30c. |