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Show BRIGHTER VIEW I HELDQNWHEAT Kansas Crop Is Much Larger: Than Expected While Rain Helps Canada CHICAGO. Julv 24. Optimism In regard to a big jleld o' wheat this season despite black rust has heloed to case Ihe wheat market this yveek. Compared With a week ago, wheat quotations this morning wore 1 'j to 2c lower. Corn showed gains of 1 'A to i'ic, and onts varied from c decline de-cline to 2c advance. In provisions. 1 1 hi , ,y n s .1 rl.-. extending li ...in 1 '. 1 lo 75c. Official estimates that the Kansas heal emu y.oul(l be 37.000. 000 buxh- els largor than had been expected bi!' month was regarded by many traders; ns more than tin offset for what." 1 damage might be done by black rust; , in the northwest, Eiter, too, there' were forcests by a leading expert that regardless of rust the spring wheat I yield would total as much us 300.000,. 1 ouo bushels. Winter wheat yvus figured fig-ured by him at 350,000,000 bushels. Timely rains in western Canada, to-gethc to-gethc with .1 vtnppage of export buying buy-ing for Great Britain tended further to unsettle the confidence ot the bulls. Persistent buying on the part of lug elevator companies waa largely responsible re-sponsible for the strength of corn. Be-des Be-des there was talk thnt corn receipts I would soon lie greatly curtailed Rapid harvesting made the oats market weaken. Provisions rcllected the advance of j corn. |