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Show FLOUR FOLLOWS BREAK IN WHEAT M 1 N'NT.A P I.IS. Aug. 2.'.. The' Northwestern Miller's Review of the flour trade says j A break of seven to fifteen cents In ' Cash wheat and of five cents In the December option on August 23. resulted result-ed In reductions of twenty-f lve to for- ty cents in many mills. Quotations for, patent flour which Is now selling fori I less than at any dime since last No- . I vembOE. Even so, buyers show little i Inclination to make purchases and the, trade Is vcry dull. The relatively low-price low-price nf December wheat Is keeping 1 buyers out of the market and at least temporarily holding flour price i down. , The flour output Is gradually increasing, increas-ing, the Kansas-Oklahoma hard winter win-ter wheat mills reporting last wck an output amounting to sixty-eight per cent of capacity; tne Ohio valley soft I winter wheal mills forty-seven, and the spring wheat mills forty-throe per . cent. j no |