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Show WHEAT RALLIES ON IMPROVED DEMflfUD Closing Prices Arc Firm; Corn Also Further Up; Oats Prices Firm. CHICAGO. On. 7. Improved demand for hard winter grades for export and milling had much Influence today In rallying rally-ing tho wheat market. Closing prices viore firm at Itfjc to ;e higher. Corn , up. and oats with a gain of 14710 10 H hut provisions wero 121e to 3 ijc down. Aetlyp call for United States hard win-wi-nt dovclopcd qulto unexpectedly both hero and southwest. Tho grain, which Is unsually heavy and dry. seemed to b, mrAtinp wltli special favor In Europe, Eu-rope, rivaling Canadian spring. Saks nro 0f lnc i,nrd wIntor variety lodav rommandod the bt prcmiumn of tho nea'-son nea'-son up to now. Ansortlons Uial receipts northwest would contlnuo to diminish helped lift wlifiit prices. . Tho arrivals thorn todav1 were only two-thirds of thosi of a year ago. A big Incro3o of tho world's ovaJIablo supplv. however, had counted in favor of the bears, and thre were also ndvlccs of bonnflclal rains In Argentina. Spasmodic weakness from such causes disappeared entirely though. In tho last hour, chiefly on account of tho better export and milling mill-ing call. Corn. Rftor suffering n. sharp break, had a strong upturn. Rain that was said to bo damaging forage in K;insas and elsewhere was responslblo for tho bulge. 1 hero wero reports, too. that Argentina corn arriving at New York was In poor condition. The early setback In prices camo mainly through aggressive, short selling on the part of pit traders. In tho oals crowd. local speculators who hammered values carlv paid later for their courage. A bullish esllmato of tho I'rench crop had considerable effect. Provisions gave way under liquidating sales, especially of lard. It was not until un-til aftor many stop-loss orders had been executed and tho grain markets had begun be-gun to rally that tho "big packers took a hand In furnishing support. nAOE OF THE LKADINO FUTUnKS. Whest Opon. Hlsh. Voir. CIos. P."5 M " 8i.4 ?S; SSi ''T 31 on; 907; Corn ?,ec 6?; STi C7U 6?H M"7. 70; 7i; 701.1 7iv 0t P,M 0U 41U 404 ii Mr 4li . ,4tS . . 4J'4 . 41U CASH QUOTATIONS. WJieit No. 3 red. 02H'2?3c: j,-0. 3 rcj. 90aJ2e-No. 90aJ2e-No. 2 hard. SV-JlS6o; No. 3 hard. StjrtSc: N'o. 2 norUiera, S5flS7c: .Vo. 3 northern. iLitftttc: No. 2 prlcK, KOS7c: No. 3 eprlnir; S5i4ff5e; dunim, fi:3S3c. Cora No. 2. 70fl70!ie; No. 2 whltn. SSjnoue: No. 2 yellow. 701r704c; No. 3, e570V.e: No. 3 white. G9U07oe: No. 3 yellow. $DUr;0(4c. Oala. No. 3 white. SDliOIOlic; standanl. 40; 41;e. )tyeN'o. 2. 66HffC7c. Barloy 65T82c Timothy 13.7SOJ5.2S. Clover JJ.OOffll. 50. I'ork-J22.00. I.ird-J 10.35. Hit M0.503m.Z5. |