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Show NKRKET FOB Oil Impetus Furnished by Ideal Weather and Increased Rural Offerings. ! CHICAGO, Sept. 15. Nearly ideal weather and an increase of rural offerings offer-ings furnished much of the impetus today for a decided downward swing which took place in values of corn. The market closed heavy, lic 10 24c lqwer, at -M-lo-; : to Jjsl.lt:f:t i'or December and t j for May. Oats finished 3.iC to ; oft'. Provisions gained luc to 4 Tie. I High tempera hires prevailed over alt important corn states and there, was no j rain of consequence. The fact that such 1 conditions were just the kind for ripening j the crop made an Instant impression on I traders. bearish sentiment deepened I after the issuance of the government j weekly forecast indicating generally fair i veather and seasonable warmth for the next three or four days. Weakness in the casli market was likewise in favor of tlie bears, and all the more so as the accompanying ac-companying enlargement of country offerings of-ferings to arrive had been in response to bids from here, which were 5c lower than yesterday. Continued peace gossip, together to-gether with reports that a German submarine sub-marine was operating off the New England En-gland coast, tended further to handicap the bulls. No important reaction developed devel-oped and the market closed at almost tlie lowest point of the day. Oats weakened with corn. Seaboard advices implied that yesterday's export sales exceeded 1,000,000 bushels, but this circumstance failed to count in the absence ab-sence of and fresh demand from the east. Besides, predictions of larger receipts were current. Milling orders for wheat here continued to be far in excess of the arrivals. The total receipts for tlie week in Chicago were only about one-third o& tlie amount at the corresponding tune last year: Other domestic terminals also reported a decided shortage. At Winnipeg, however, receipts surpassed to a liberal extent the figures Of 1916. Bullish estimates of the amount of recent re-cent purchasing for Belgium gave strength to provisions. Another element of firmness firm-ness was an expected scarcity of hog supplies sup-plies here next week. RANGE OF TUB LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn D i.-Sl.lS'i 51.1S"i SI. 10 fl.issf, Ma-v i.ir',i 1.1 1.14 l.nu Oats !Vc .ss'.i .;.-,y2 .f.7 M-W 61U .61'i .W, ,60'-i Fork Oct 42. go Jan 42. 90 i'l. HO -13.20 l Avion Avi-on 23. $2 23. SI 23.85 Jan 21. SO 22. S2 22.13 22 77 Ribs Oct 22. S7 M. M 2;!. Sr. 22. 2 Jau 22.00 22.1-i 22.00 22.10 |