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Show FROST FEARS GIVE CORN PRICES A LIE! CHICAGO. Sept. 13. Fresh uneasiness over chances that serious crop damage from frost was not unlikely gave an advantage ad-vantage to the bulls today in the corn market. Frequent violent shifts in values val-ues took place and the close was unsettled, unset-tled, c to net higher, at December at $1.19 to 51-19 and May at Jl.13 to 51.16. Oats lost He to c. Provisions Provi-sions wound up at an advance of 17c to 77c. Despite the fact that frosts which had been looked for did not appear, the corn market rallied quickly from a break that took place at the outset. Anxiety that the danger of killing low temperatures tempera-tures had only been delayed, not averted, took a new clutch as the result of forecasts fore-casts of frost tonight in the northwest and because of authoritative statements that the bulk of the crop in such Important Im-portant states as Kansas and Missouri would not be safe until September 30. Seaboard speculators were 1 said to have been among the leading buyers. Heavy selling on the upturns carried prices swiftly backward several times, but In every case the reaction failed to last, as the absorptive power of the market mar-ket held out robust to the end. Freezing weather was reported at Mi not, N. D., and unsettled, cooler conditions were Indicated In-dicated for a big portion of the corn belt. Oats fluctuated with corn, but showed less buoyancy on account of the comparative com-parative slowness of cash demand, both seaboard and domestic. It was said that export call bad been shut off by yesterday's yester-day's advance. Incoming supplies of wheat at Minneapolis Minne-apolis and Duluth were reported as nearly near-ly equaling in volume the totals of a year ago. At Chicago, however, the arrivals were far from amounting to enough to meet requisitions from millers. Big shipments of meats stimulated a rise in the provision list. Higher quotations quo-tations on hogs tended also to strengthen the market. RANGE OP THE LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Clost. Corn December $1.18 U.lMi J1.17H W. May 1.15 l.lSWi l.H'i 1.15H Oats-December Oats-December .58a; .H7ij .Ml, May 61 V .SITi .60 .61 Vi , Pork-October Pork-October .. .M 42. SO 42.9$ 42. SO 4295 January .. 43.20 43. 0 43.20 43.80 Lard-October Lard-October 23.72 23.85 23.67 23. Pa 4nuarv 22.70 22.85 22.70 22. So Ribs October 24.1! 24.47 24.12 24.47 , January 22.02 22.17 22.02 22.47 |