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Show CORN CROP SUFFERING Chicago. Aug. 1- Excitement In the eorn market whirled prices up more than 2 cents a bushel today ;Thls made the advam - equal to abou; 7 entfl In the last week. Reports were at hand Indicating that the eorn crop as a whole h.id Buffered a loss of 201 10 to' 00 000,000 bushelB in the lasi month, owing ow-ing to damage from lack of the normal nor-mal amount of moisture The greal r part of the Injury has been In Kansas. Kan-sas. Oklahoma, Missouri and , M lS ka. but the outlook for a greatly enlarged en-larged era of damage wHS today regarded re-garded by many traders as danger-ouslj danger-ouslj thretenlng Davenport, rowa, sen! word thai all drought records for July had Deen broken Less than two-tenths ot an inch of rain fell during the month, 'end there were no signs of any roll, ro-ll, r I'eoriu. Hi., dispatebes said ,,,1-n in t tie fields "- 'h.-r- v...j rired two to three- tel up and v ,. not likeiv to produce any grain, the color of ' the tassels having become uunaturaL |