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Show SilAHP BREAK GGCURSi In! THE CORN WAP.KET Millions of Bushels of Old Crop on Hand; Abnormal Acreage Planted. By JOSEPH F. PRITCHARD. By International News Service. CHICAGO. May ?7. There has been a sharp break in corn, with the easy car situation and the free Rollins by the interior in-terior t lie weakening factors. According1 to official figures, as compiled com-piled by ths Chicago board of trade, the receipts of corn at western markets were ".in.noo bushels la.st week, and, while tiifse receipts were l.OOO.OOy bushels smaller than the previous week, they wore S.M.OitO bushels larger than the corresponding cor-responding time In 91i. The shipments of corn at western points last week totaled 2.680. f'OO bushels, ags Inst 2.90'i,-Vi0 2.90'i,-Vi0 huhels the week before and 2.9S2.00O bushels for the corresponding time last year. There is doubtless more corn in the vountry than Is credited, and because of the abnormal acreage already seeded, coimled with the favorable crop prospects throughout the belt, the movement wilt increase. The trade In wheat feels sanguine of condit ions a palm veering around into a posit Ion where it will be possible to do business In the more deferred futures. Thev also fel, however, that there must be pood - sized stocks of wheat at Cht-creo Cht-creo and the smaller markets of the country in order to do business In a normal nor-mal way. There Is a larger area of oats sealed this year and. from conditions surrounding surround-ing the general situation, prices have been held at a level now considered too high. The condition of the growing: crop has seldom been so uniformly g-ood as at the present time. There lias been a decline In the rrar- ; ket for provisions because of ths desire on the rirt of the foreign holders of lard to liquidate, their lines. The demand from abroad has been generally poor, not only j for lard, but for meats as well. |