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Show WHEAT MARKET IS VERY SLIGHTLY OFF Crop ' Reports From Kansas Serve to Temper the Most Bullish Enthusiasm. CHICAGO, May 23. Statements that rain within a week or so would corroct much of the crop damage in Kansas served today to temper down bullish enthusiasm en-thusiasm regarding wheat. Tho market cloce-d heavy from unchanged to Sc below. be-low. Other loading staples all ehowed net gains corn, ic to Ec; oats, ijc to Iffllc, and provisions, 253l5c' to 22jc Later estimates of tho probablo wheat yield In Kansas were 110,000,000 bushels to 11G.O00.000 bushels, aa against a total of 00,000,000 bushels figured out early In the day by an Influential authority, warmer weather northwest continued slow; merchandising trade had effect, also, on tho bear side. Big world shipments promised made wheat longa willing to take profits. This was done largely at the expense of eleventh-hour Investors and belated shorts who, for a while, carried the market sharply higher. When tho buyers wore finally supplied, however, prices fell back limp. Primary receipts of wheat today were 453,000 bushels, a year ago. 306,000 bushels. bush-els. Seaboard clearances of wheat and flour equaled 496,000 bushels. In corn, tho fact that tho country had tightened up on offerings led to covering by a number of big shorts. Ono concern alone bought 1,000.000 bushels. Stocks hero are llghL Oats advanced on account ac-count of assertions that tho seven chief producing states would have ono-thlrd less to sell this season than In the preceding pre-ceding season. Packors. buying through commission houses, gavo provisions an upturn after early weakness, duo to a liberal run of hogs. R.VNOE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Wbhst Open. High. I if. Close May 02 32 PI PI July PO; 30U P0 PO Sept S0 P0 SPi S9U Deo Plli ?1;4 31H 9Ui Corn May 57H 55U 57 K K July 6754 Mli C7-i 67i Sept 57H 55'i r,7Ti RSU Doc 56 5614 &3!i tc'i Oals May 40U 41'; 40; 41U July 35 U 3$U 3S4 5S1 Sept .174 33U 37i 37Ts Dec 33U 33 3SVt 3SV4 CASH QUOTATIONS. Wheat No. 2 red, J1.07CM.0S4: No. 3 red. O'cSJ J1.03: No. 2 hard, D2V41?S4;c: No. 3 bard. 30O S2c: No. 1 northern. 02Vi5J94i4o: No. 2 northern. P15TS3o; No. 3 nortborn. S0O32c; No. 2 sprlnc. 9182c: No. 3 nprlnc STffPOc: No. 4 uprlnc. SO 87c; velvet chaff. OOIIBSc: durum. 005P6C. Corn No. 2. GOVic; No. 2 -white, 62Jr02l4c; No. 2, yolloK, I3053lio; No. 3. CSUc; No. 3 n-hlte. 6Iff614c: No. 3 yellow. 68Hff53c; No. 4. 5SUc; No. 4 white. COWc Oats No. 2 white. AyVAZUc; No. 3 white. S3V4fl 40lc; No. 4 white. 37'.44M9i4c: standard. 41'.4 f2c. llyc No. 2. 36IHc. Barley 50863c. Timothy $3.5ffS.5. Clover Nominal. Pork 3.55. Lard 111.10. Bibs JI1.50312.0D. CJhicago Produce. CHICAGO. May 23. Butter Lower; creamery, 24tf'27c. 15ggs Unchanged; receipts, 1021 cases. Potatoes Higher; receipts, 46 cars; Michigan. 75S0c; Minnesota. 70g75c: Wisconsin. 7OS0c; new potatoes, $1. 50(g) I. 75 a bushel. Poultry Lower; chickens, alive, 16c; springs, alive, 16c. Now York Produce. NEW YORK, May 23. Flour, firm; spring patents, $-l.G5(5?4.90; winter straights. $4. 454. 55; Kansas straights, $4.204.30. Wheat, spot, firm: No. 2 red, nominal, No. I northern Duluth. SI. 01 f. o. b. afloat. Futures wero higher early on complaints of damage by dry weather In western Kansas, but eased off later under realizing. May, 90ic; July, 9Sic; September, 90Ec. Hops, quiet. Hides, steady. Petroleum, steady. Wool, steady. Raw sugar, Irregular: Muscovado. 2.7r 32.S0c; contrlfugnl, 3.25J3.30c; molasses sugar, 2.502..r)5c; refined, steady. Boston Wool Market. BOSTON, May 23. Tho Commercial Bulletin will say tomorrow: Some of the new wools which have been arriving In tho market during the last week have sold rathor more extensively ex-tensively this week at prices which mean n clean scoured basis of about 50 cents. Tho movement of necessity has not been hpnw in any class of wool and there Is still "a considerable difference of opinion between manufacturers and wool dealers as to values. Coffeo Futures Steady. NEW YORK. May 23. Coffee futures opened steady at unchanged prices to an advance of 2 points and showed considerable consider-able firmness during the day on covering cover-ing and bull support based on small estimates esti-mates of the coming Santos crop and steadier into cables from Europe. The selling was less aggressive today following follow-ing liie rather active liquidation of Thursday Thurs-day and the market closed steady. Sales. 36,500 bags. May. lu.U5c; July. 11.01c; September, 11.20c; October. 1121c: December De-cember nnd January, 11.24c; March, II. 27c. Spot, qulot: Rio 7s. lUc; Santos 4s, 13ic. Mild, quiet: Cordova. 1417c, nominal. nomi-nal. Evaporated Fruits. NEW YORK. May 23. Evaporated apples, ap-ples, quiet. Prunes and apricots, firm. Peaches, quiet. Raisins, steady. Cotton Market. , NEW YORK, May 23. Cotton closed steady at a net loss of 6 to 9 points. Flax, Oats and Rye. MINNEAPOLIS. May 23. Flour, bran and barley, unchanged. No. S yellow corn. flc. No. 5 white oats. 3636c. No. 2 rye. 55?57ic. Flax. $1.31. Oro and Bullion. The ore and bullion report for Friday, given bv McCornlck & Co., was ns follows: fol-lows: Ore received, ills. 000: bullion shipped. $65,000; total. $1SO,000. |