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Show PRICES HIE OH CRICA60 EXCHANGE Wheat Drops From Preceding Pre-ceding Quotations, Corn Declines, Oats Up CHICAGO Aug 11 Tumbling pr ces today on change gave e ldence that the temporary embargo which the war bas put on ocean shipments from the United States was not to be Ignored Thtere was a nervous close In wheat at 21c to 2Jc under last Ight The outcome for corn was unsettled ranging from Jc decline to a like advance Oats gained c to )c net Pro isldna In the end were 1 Jc to Sic down. It was plain from the start toda that buying wheat blindly on war news had come to a sudden halt Holders w th I profits who heretofore would not stop to : consider the la k of any present outlet for the rapidly accumulating surplus n the L nlted States were n a stampede 'to unload and were quickly made aware ' that sentiment in the trade had been i largely reversed Bearish feel! g was fur ther augmented by the know edge that seaboard exporters had resold consider able quantities uf wheat o Chicago handlers and that ere was no even ap proximate assuran e of w hen interio terminals could obtain relief What little reaction took place from the dav a bottom prices n wheat ap pea red due to reports hat some Kansas shipments were being made to Canada presumab o export bill ng Itwas said that such wheat would be milled In bond and the product be exported to England There Avaa also said to have been an ac tl e demand at Minneapolis At the e treroe today whea ere was down 31 compared with -teste da s cose 1 Corn weakened with wheat and as a result of beneficial rains n the ch ef pro i duclng Btates Sh pp ng demand con tlnued active howe er and Anally caused a decided upturn in t e beptember optlo I Oats had a surpr sing recovery near the close It was said the movement fron the farms was not nearlv so free as I ad been expected Pro iaions fe on account of a break i In the hog n arket due to rece pts great! exceeding the eat mates Packers d d not support priceb t II t p drop amounted to nearly a dollar In some cases Notwltl standing the wav values uffered the to tal of transactions was not unusua large RANGE OF THE LEAD NO KUTtTHE Who Open High Low 6p e nbe M Dty- mbe 4 0 99 i om ! 3 p embe 7Mi S 1 De embe 59 SS , Oats i ep embe k W1 1 Decern be 3 43 Po k I app embe 52 00 2 2 90 J.ntia y . "2 S 7 80 i Lard Sep embe '9 9 O obe 0-00 0 0 9 30 R b Sep mbe 0 40 O ob 30 0 'LO"' NO QtOTAT 0S roe Wbea SeD embe 94 De embe f 00V C m S p ember 78V. De mbe 6H Oa a ep emb 4 De embo 4 f k S p mb $ 9 Jan us J $. La S p mbe S9 Ob 59, S R b ! p mb S .0 obe h |