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Show CORN JUMPS ON CROP REPORTS Chicago, July 5 Because of the withering heat the price of corn today jumped up 4 3-4c a bushel. -sFor the same reason, oats made a skyward loap of 2 1-S2 l-4c. The corn market Tvas boiling with excitement right from, the start. Buying Buy-ing orders seemed to pile in from all directions, but sellers were scarce. The flurry received, greatorvimpetus from tho fact that Kansas City reported re-ported an advance of 5 cents a bushel straight The intense heat, and absence ab-sence of moisture over the corn belt, was the factor. Besides world shipments ship-ments were reported as much lighter than had been looked for, and Liverpool Liver-pool dispatches told of heavy covering cover-ing by shorts. The opening here ranged all the way from 2 l-2c to 4 3-4c higher On the same option trades in different parts of the pit at a given moment varied as much as 2 l-2c apart. The greatest relative rise was in the July delivery. September, Septem-ber, which was the most active future, started 2 l2c to 4c up at 64 -266c and finally steadied around 65 l-2c. In the oats crowd traders were almost al-most fully as much exercised as in the corn pit Business was on a huge scale The specific news that attracted attract-ed the greatest attention was an official of-ficial report from Iowa showing a falling off of 28 per cent in the condition condi-tion of the oats crop in that state. Most of the damage was laid to the excessive heat and to the lack of rain. Kansas City, July 5. Amid t the wildest scopes enacted on the Kansas City board of trade for years, the corn market gained from 3 l-2c to 5c in price in the first ten minutes of trading trad-ing today During that time approximately approxi-mately 1,000,000 bushels had been traded In on |