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Show CORN WEAKENED BY SUBSTITUTE ORDER CHICAGO, Nov. 14. "Wenkness which developed devel-oped id the corn market today resulted principally prin-cipally from annulment of the order compelling the use of wheat substitutes in baking. Prices closed unsettled, c to 2c net lower, with December De-cember $1.18 to SI. 18 and January $1.1094 to ,$1.10. Oats lost c to lc. In provisions, the finish varied from 20c decline to 35c advance.' ad-vance.' Official announcement that, the- ban on white bread had been removed brought about general house selling In the corn mnrket, as under the new plan a big reduction In demand for corn as a wheat substitute became a certainly.'' This fact more than offset the knowledge that country offerings were light and that central Illinois husking reports were Hnid to be disappointing. dis-appointing. Bears derived advantage also from tlio weather conditions, which favored curing of the new crop. With such circumstances prevailing, pre-vailing, the rallies that took place were not of an impressive character, Oats went lower with corn. It was said, too, that handlers here who had made Bales to the government were in receipt of word to bold un rail shipments until further notice. Packers' buying njected considerable strength into the provision market. At first, though, declines had been caused by weakness of grain and hogs. KANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. ' Low. Close. Corn-December Corn-December . . $1 . 19 'j $1 20 $1.17 $1.18 January 1.21 1.21'i 1.19 1.19 Oats December ... .70 .71 .TO', .70' January 70j .70 .69 .704 Pork-November Pork-November 39.75 January 44.00 44.47 44.00 44.30 Lard November f 20.80 January 20.32 20.T2 2Q.52 26.60 Ribs-November Ribs-November 24.70 January 24.00 24.15 23.92 23.97 CASH QUOTATIONS. CHICAGO, Nov. 14. Corn, No. 2, yellow, nominal; No. 3, yellow, $1.321.35; No. 4, yellow, yel-low, $1.25. Oats, .No. 3, white, 7172c; standard, 72 72 c. Rve, No. 2. $1.02. Parley, 92c(fii$1.05. Timothy, Clover, nominal. Pork, nominal. , Lard, $20.8026.00. Ribs, nominal. |