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Show MARKET UNSETTLED BY PROFIT Til Wheat Market, However, Closes With Small Gam, Provisions Highei CHICAGO Dec 14 Heavy profit tak iris by longs who asserted ha the gov ernment crop repor tomorrow was like y to prove bear sh -n-iped out the g eater part of a 1 ely advance sco ed today in the, wheati market here The c ose w as heavy at a net ga n of sc to lc with December at $116,4 and May at 1 17 117$g Other final results were Corn unchanged to c off oats unchanged to Up up and provisions unchanged to 40c higher The setback that ensued fron the top level of the sess on was most apparent In May option.. December contracts re malned comparatively firm owing to fea s that a Btr ke In progress on the Chicago he t railway m Dht Interfere with, current deliveries .especial y as the stock on hand Lu Chicago s small "Word that the movement of nheat from first hands in the northwest had serious y fallen off had cons derable to do with the strength which the market here d splayed during the first "half of the da It was al o Contended that the bulk of wheat la Buffalo or afloat there estimated at 25 000 000 bushe s had al ready been sold for export Corn sympathized to a limited extent with the wheat ad ance but was kept easy ty clear cold weather that favored huwklnff and shlpp ng Trade in oats was mainly of a lo al character H gher prices on hos lifted pro nsions Packers d d 1 ttle or no se hng Com mission houses and shorts w ere the 1 lef buyers and appeared to bo actliu? on the o tlook that the unexpected shortage of hog receipts today wo ld continue to morrow or longer RANGE OF THB LEADING FUTURES Open High Low Clo a. Wheat Dec Jl 16 $1 Uf $1 15H $1 16 Mas 1 16,4 1 19U 1 167, 1 1 Corn Dec 67 6SH 66 6 May W 1 04 0 Oats Dec 43 4', 4 42 May 45 ii 41 4 Pork-Jan Pork-Jan 18 50 18 62 18 60 18 66 May 18 40 IS $5 18 40 IS 50 Lard Jan 9 70 8 SO 9 0 9 76 Ma S 92 10 07 9 2 slO 00 Ribs Jan 1 80 9 86 9 7 9 70 Ha; 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 12 CASH QUOTATIONS 1 eat No 2 red Jl 121 13 No 2 ed t 9SS1 1954 No hard non inal No 1 all 01HP1 11V6 Corn No e ow oil 72 214o No 4 jellow new 656 c No 4 wb te new 64ft65c Oats No S white 40 Ac sta d ar 43 (,43ic Rje No 1 c Bar o 61 0c T mothy 15 00 o 8 00 Clo e 10 0019 0 Fo $16 25 ari $9 05 Is $9 80 10 1 |