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Show WORLD'S MARKETS New York April 7 Conflicting conditions con-ditions resulting from a mixture ot buying and selling orders were reflected reflect-ed In today s early trading Harriman shares, United States Rubber and a few less important issues attained highest prices of the year and some of the specialties added one or more points to recent gains. Bethlehem Steel, however. v ielded another two points to its decline of vesterdav and United States Steel Reading and Bal tlmore & Ohio were inclined to ease olf. South Omaha Livestock. South Omaha, Neb.. April 7 Hogs Receipts 1 2 500 lower Heavy, S6.'45(g ti.fin; light. $6.556.70, pigs. $5.60)96.60; bulk of sales. $6.6006.60. Cattle Receipts 400; active. Native Na-tive steers. S6.6O08.35; cows and heifers. $5.0007.00; western steers. $6.0007.66; Texas steers. $5.807 20 cows and heifers, $4 80ifib(t; calves, $7 notjj. 10.00. Sheep Receipts soon. steady Yearlings. $8.509 15. wethers, $7.65 q 8.55, lambs, $960010.30. Sugar. New York, April 7 Raw sugar future? fu-ture? easier, centrifugal $4.70; molasses, mo-lasses, $3.93 ; refined, steady. The market for sugar futures opened easier today under selling by trade interests but there was enough demand from shorts and commission nouses to absorb all offerings and prices at midday were only a point or two net lower. CHICAGO GRAIL Chicago, pril 7. Prospects of general gen-eral showers made the wheat market today turn quickly downgrade. Th reason was that in most of the Important Im-portant wheat territory' east of the Mississippi river there have been no adequate spring rains. Firmness of cables exercised only a brief Influence Influ-ence After opening 5-8c lower to 1 4 0S-8b up, the market underwent a material decline all around. Corn sympathized with the weakness weak-ness of wheat The volume of trading trad-ing was lair. Opening prices, which were unchanged to l-8c lower, were lollowed by a moderate general setback set-back Oats took the same course as other grain Shorts covering, however, helped to steady the market and there were signs of expert business Notwithstanding a firm start provisions pro-visions soon began to sag. Support was lacking. Bearish government reports led afterward aft-erward to a further decline in wheat The close was weak at 1 3 8'2c under un-der Monday night's level. Smallness of country corn offer ings tended later to act as a prop. The close was steady, 1-2 to 1-2 5 5 8c net lower. Wheat No. 2 red, $1.6401.56 1-2; No 2 hard. $1 56 1-2 n 1 58 Corn No. 2 yellow, 73 l-2c; No. 4 yellow. 70 1-JT7 71 l-2c. Oats No. ? white, of'nhc standard, stand-ard, 57 l-4(?i l-2c. Rice No. 2. $1.17. Barle 70078c. Timothy - $4.50 6.25. Clover $8 25 12 76 Pork $16.72 Lard $9.90. Ribs $9.0( fj 9.50 ru |
