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Show Weekly Grain And Provisions Sales Bearish CHICAGO. Sept 13. Unexpected en-! largement of the government estimate of the 1910 domestic leld of corn had an Intensely bearish effect on corn ' this week, and so too did the sted workers' strike ultimatum Compared with a week ago corn prices this morning morn-ing showed h fall of S'i rn 17c, oats Were down 2 2 c and provisions off 4T.r tn $4.05. Both the government crop estimate and the steel workers' ultimatum took the corn trade by surprise. Private advices had given no indications that there would be any important change from the official forecast issued on August Au-gust regarding the corn crop. Notice therefore that 7u.ooo.000 bushels in-crease in-crease was possible led to a rush to sell corn. Industrial unrest later be- line the dominating factor with atten-ion atten-ion first centered on chances of a nationwide strike of stock yard and j mg house employes. Then came i Ihe steel workers' ultimatum and with other strike disturbances recurring discouraged holders were forced to liquidate on a neatly constant decline in values. Oats sympathized with the weakness ot corn notwithstanding that the government gov-ernment crop report to oats favored the bulls. Talk of export business with Ger-man Ger-man tailed to uphold provisions in the face of down turns in the price of hogs and grain |