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Show WORLD'S MfllETS Chicago Grain Chicago, April 1 Numerous adverse ad-verse crop reports and firmness of Liverpool quotations gave considerable consider-able strength today to the wheat market mar-ket here. The Oklahoma state crop report was distinctly bullish as com' pared u ith either month or a year ago and there wero advices from Indiana and Ohio indicating a probable reduction reduc-tion of acreage. Opening prices, which ranged from l-8l-4c off to 3-8 l-2c up, with May at $1 13 3-4 to 1 14, and July at $1 12 14 to 1 12 1-2, were followed by substantial gains all around In the corn market the chief fea ture was a lack of selling pressure-Lightness pressure-Lightness of receipts appeared to make the bears cautious. After opening open-ing a sixteenth down to 1-8 to l-4c higher, prices scored a moderate gen-eial gen-eial advance. , Oats traders took their cue from tho action of other, grain. For the most part trading was of a local character char-acter Higher quotations on hogs lifted piovisions. Weekly figures showed Increased shipments of fresh and cured meats and lard. Omaha, Nebr, April 1. Hogs Receipts Re-ceipts 3000, higher Heavy, $9 25 9.40, light, -$9 109.30; pigs. $7 50 8 75, bulk of sales, ?9.209 35 Cattle Receipts 300; steady. Native Na-tive steers, $7.S59.26; cows and heifers, $G757 75; western steers, $7.0008 70; Teas steers, $G757.25; stackers and feeders. $6,608 GO. Sheep Recolpts 18,000; steady Yearlings, $8 60(0110 40, wethers, $8 25 9 00; lambs ?11 0011.50. na |