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Show MILLIES UPON ' KEW VVETVVEATHER Bears Are at Disadvantage From Reports, but Close Is Unsettled. CHICAGO. May 23. Despite persistent selling sell-ing today, the corn market rallied at the last owing to a renewal of wet weather. Prices closed unsettled. :e ii"t lower to s.ie ud-vanee, ud-vanee, wiih .Inly at Jl.ti.'i to l.CiS'i and September Sep-tember at Jl.077N to $1.."S. Oats finished Vie I o down, and provisions unchanged to a de'-line of 8.ic. Assert ions tha t corn plmi t inc would be held back S" era I days in i m porta 11 1 sect ions where rains had UiraLu started put the bears at a sndrlen disadvantage jifst before (lie session ended. Previously, the. market had slmw n weakness, influenced by the fact that country coun-try offerings were more liberal than lias recently re-cently been the case. The detraction of a big slnrch works at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which had been grinding 2n,uiXl bushels of corn a day, counted also as a depressing factor, and ho. too. (lid Argen tine compel 1 1 ion in t he east. Nevertheless, shorts covered freely when planting plant-ing delays were a train in sight, not to mention men-tion increased likelihood of need for much re-planiing. re-planiing. (bits reflected a ehnrp break in the value of b:irley. Polls iudieaiiiiK Mint congress might not remove war-time prohibition were chiefly responsible. Slowness of cash demand. together wilh downturns in (he lmg market and with a falling off in clearances from New York, operated as a weight on provisions. THIS RANGE 01' THE LEADING FUTUUES. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn-July Corn-July SL.tJo'i $1.6r.'J yi.fi2'& $1.65 Sept 1.57 '-i l.SSl-i 1.58& 1.67 On ts July 08' 4 .GS'i .67 ,6 Sept -t3 -IxJ'.'i .C4"s Pork-Ma Pork-Ma v 53.00 July 48.00 49. oO 4S.50 48.00 I-ard July SO.fcO 31.00 31.55 30.80 Sept jO.&O 30. GO 'J0.i)o 30.30 KibB Ju 1 v 27 . 25 27 . L'7 26 . 00 27 . 1 5 Kept 26.70 20.70 20.20 2ti.0O CASH QUOTATIONS. Corn No. 3 yellow, SI .80 fed. 81 ; No. 4 yellow, yel-low, :? 1.70; No. 5 yellow, nominal. Oats No. 3 white, 0070 '-c ; standard, 70 &7l Vjc. Itye No. 2, ?1.401.51. Harley $l.GiTitl.2i. 1'imothy SO.OOfg.1 1 2.00. Clover Nominal. Pork Nominal. Lard $33.05. Libs $28.00(5. 28.75. |