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Show BREAKS IN VALUE OF 1 HOGS UPSET MARKET CHICAGO, Oct. 21. Severe breaks in the rabies of hos more than outweighed nU other factors In the corn market today. The result was u heavy close, IVi to 2'jc net lower, with December Sl.LiS to $1.27 :ind May $1.21 to S1.21TA- Oa;s finished vAc .to -c off, and provisions unchanged to 90c down. Notwithstanding thiit corn opened sharply hiphr, sentiment quickly reversed itself. The upturn at the staff was ,due entirely to an-nonrn--nient that, on October 25 the railroad adm inistrr ti"n would r. store the Individual permit per-mit system for the movement Oi grain. Through this change ,of methods, the arrivals of corn at primary markets was expected by many tmders to be much curtailed. Knowledge, however, that under the welfiht of excessive supplies; tho hog -market was undergoing un-dergoing n big tumble took the lend soon an the dominating influence in regard to corn, (specially after word came that hog prices In some cases had dropped $1.00 n hundredweight within twenty-four hours, and that fully 1G.000 hogs here would bo left over tonight unsold. There were also reports that owing to a packinghouse packing-house strike at Indianapolis hogs at Indiana points were being offered at unusually low figures. Oats weakened with corn. Provisions reflected the collapse of the hog market. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn-Dec Corn-Dec S U 20 $ 1 . 20 $1 . 23 'ii S 1 . 23 May 1.24 1.24"8 1.217 1.21 Oats Dec 71 Vj -"l -T0v4 .70 M.iv 74't .74;;a .73'?3 -73 Pork Oct .'-.41. r.0 41.50 Jan 32.73 2.75 32.10 32.10 Lard Nov. . . .,..2(1.00 20.00 2fi.5S . 2". 61 Jan 2-1.15 24.25 23. S5 23.05 Kihs Oct 18.01 Jan 17.3a 17.43 17.30 17. 3,1 Corn No. 2, mixed, $1.3SVi L39 ; No. 2, yellow, yel-low, 51.39i31.4034. Onts No. 2, white, 7273y2c; No. 3. white, 69frr72c. lire No. 2. $1 .30(T?1.S7. p.nrlPT $1.21fr71.36. T i m ol hy $ S. r0 (S, 11 . 25 . Clover -Nominal. Purl: Nominal. Lard ? 27.2,1. Ilibs SIS. 2510. |