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Show uu MA! WHEAT UP Notable Advances in Grain Market Orders Swamp the Flour Mills. CHICAGO, April 19. Notable advances ad-vances marked tho first half hour of trading in wheat futures today. May rose 7 3-4 cents to 2.40 and July S 1-f to $2,051-2. There was a complete recovery of prices from yesterday's slump occasioned occa-sioned by the removal of duty on Canadian Ca-nadian wheat. At Minneapolis the flour mills wero reported swamped by shipping orders and embarrassed by inability to get enough cars. Last week tho flour output out-put decreased 28,055 barrels, as compared com-pared with the same week a year ago. Sales, however, were made at prices hitherto unknown. Demand from the larger dealers fell off, but that from the family trade Increased. Canned Goods Advancing. Purchase of canned goods for summer sum-mer delivery has pushed up the price of the new crop, not yet planted, in some instances 100 per cent. The remainder re-mainder of last year's canning has risen ris-en proportionately. Housewives have taken fright and are laying in huge stocks at huge prices. Tho enormous purchases of canned ! goods and other staples has forced many retailers to set limits on marketing. market-ing. Grocers in residential districts declare that the demand for supplies has been so great that they cannot meet It Restrictions have been placed on the sale of canned goods, flour, sugar and soap. It is hoped that by holding off consumers who are panic-stricken the market may be stabilized. stab-ilized. Hoarding a Disaster. "This hoarding threatens to become a disaster to tho nation," said ool Wes-terfleld, Wes-terfleld, president of the National Retail Re-tail Grocers' and Butchers' association. "The food supply Is adequate if consumers con-sumers will only act reasonably. In a crisis liko this it Is unfair for the person wiiu large or even moderate means to buy in huge quantities, leaving leav-ing the poor to buy from a depleted store at advanced prices." A rise in the price of bread is looked on by bakers as Inevitable in vlow of the advance in flour. Tho suggestion sug-gestion said to meet with most favor among bakers Ib to do away with tho six-cent loaf, the recent successor to tho old-tlmo five-cent loaf, and to reduce re-duce tho size of the ten-cent loaf. oo |