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Show CHICAGO PRODUCE. CHICAGO, April 15. The wheat market mar-ket opened lower on active selling movement move-ment based upon reports of rain in the Southwest. The reports, however, proved somewhat exaggerated and prices advanced sharply on covering by shorts. May weak opened i to 1c lower at 781c to i8c and advanced to 791c Corn opened easier and advanced In sympathy with the rally in wheat. May corn opened a shade to I Sic lower at 471c and sold at 48c. Reports of green bug damage were the chief influences' affecting the oats market. mar-ket. May was steady, 1c lower at 44c and sold at 441Q441C. Provisions were extremely dull. May pork closed 21c higher at $16,171; ribs opened unchanged to 2c lower at $8,471 8.60, and lard was off 71c at $8,621. Prices on wheat eased oft on realizing sales. The low point for May was 781c The close was easy with May down 1c at 781c Prices of corn slumped with wheat; May declining to 47g471c. The close was weak with May down i'a'ic at 479 471c The close was weak with May down Vn ic at 4713 471c. Cash: Wheat No. 2 red. 78S79c: No. 3 red. 7777ic; No. 2 hard, 77 791c; No. 3 hard, 6976c; No. 1 Northern, 801 851c; No. 2 Northern, 80ff801c; No. 3 spring, 77831c Corn No. 3, 4444Jc. Oats No. 2. 4H3 41ic. Close: Wheat May, 78J; July, 811c. Corn May, 47i471c; July, 47ic. Oats May, 43i44c; July, 40140c- Pork May, $16.00: July. $16.05. Lard May, $8.65; July $8,771. Ribs May, $S.47!?8.50; July, $8,671. Rve Cash, fi8(ff71c. Barley Cash, 65 72c. Flax, timothy and clover, nil. |