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Show GOOD CROP OUTLOOK PULLS WHEAT DOWN, Shorts Use July Option to Even Up Trades; Result j Is Irregular Market. ( CHICAGO, June 21. Excellent crop progress tended to pull down wheat prices today, but shorts in the July option made use of the chance to even up trades. The result was an irregular market, with the close unsettled, lVfec net lower to an advance of 2 cents, at 52.03 for July and $1.782 for September. Corn gained 4 IVic and oats c. In provisions the result ranged from 5 cents decline to a rise of 40 cents. Reports both from the winter -wheat belt and from the spring crop region told of encouraging farm conditions. The outlook, out-look, in fact, was so good that foreigners foreign-ers were said to be the chief sellers of the September delivery. Buying was slow, a circumstance which seemed clue in some degree to uncertainty regarding the shape that the food bill would have I on coming finally from congress. In this connection bears laid particular stress on "Washington advices relating to organized labor protests against (high prices. Much 1 attention also vtas given to an estimate ! by a leading authority that the 1917 do- mestic yield of winter wheat would aggregate ag-gregate 467,000,000 bushels Instead of , 373,000,000 bushels, the total suggested by the government's figures for June. Export demand from the entente and from the Dutch government put strength into corn. Further rains in the southwest, south-west, where ol late drought had been complained of, failed to act as more than a temporary offset. Seaboard purchases had a bullish influence in-fluence on the oats market. Serious damage dam-age reports from Kansas counted also in making values higher. Provisions averaged higher owing in the main to support from packing interests. At first, however, weakness prevailed in consequence of lower quotations on hogs. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Opeo. High. Low. Close. Wheat july $2.01 $2.06 $:.onu $2.n3 September 1-79 1.S0 1.75-i Corn Julv l.M's 1.53ai J-31'4 1.634 September 1-41 1.434 t-40 l.)2u Oats July Rl .62' .61S .62 September - .V .52 Fork Julv 39.20 SS. 53 39.20 September 39.00 39.55 3S.b2 33. 2 Lard Julv 21.R7 21.57 21.57 Sert ember 21. SO 21 .90 21.77 21 .SO Ribs-July Ribs-July 21-42 21.32 -21.37 Septcmber 21.45 21. m 21. 4 21.i.7 |