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Show " COII UNTIES if AHBiyEJH CHICAGO Unlimited Quantities Yet to - Come Forward; Market Undergoes Decline. CHICAGO. March 15. With Arrivals "eoniinuins- on a blif scale, and with apparently ap-parently unlimited quantities yet to .-onu forward, the corn market today underwent under-went new declines. Trices closed unset -to -V- net lower, at $ for March and $l.!3Ti for May. Outs lo.-t c to l?c, and provisions 7c to lTc. Favorable weather for the crop movement move-ment helped to make corn traders torus their attention on tlio fact that receipts showed no falling off in volume, nnd that no slackening in the number of arrivals was in immediate prospect. Meanwhile, (inquiry from shippers here had nearly reached the vanishing point, owini; to the absence of ordinarv uuthts to the east. Good demand from industries here gave the market at one time something of a stimulus, but was more than offset later bv assertions that owins to the poor qu;Vlity of the 1917 crop a lower grade of 'corn than at present accepted was likely to be declared standard for the tilling till-ing of- -contracts. ; lespile a temporary bulso due to covering cover-ing of tiiiO.OOO bushels by a speculative short, oats were sharply lower most of the dav. Bears had an advantat;o from reports" that much increased acreage was being seeded. Provisions sympathized with weakness of era in and hoes. RANGE OF THI0 LKADIXG FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn-March Corn-March ..$1.27--;i 5.... May ... 1.2. 1.2. 1.25 1.25 Oats-March Oats-March . . .mi .SSia May ... .S61,. .87 -SG .St! l-'ork May ...48.30 48.32 48.15 4S.25 Iard Mav ...25.97 25.97 25.90 25.92 July .. .26.12 26.15 26.07 26.12 Ribs-May Ribs-May 24.82 24.75 25.77 July . 25.22 25.15 25.17 |