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Show MAT PRICES RECORD CIS Losses in Spring Crop and Active Ac-tive Export Demand Cause Price Raise CHICAGO, Aug; 14 Bullish aspect as-pect of government crop report,! tojcothfM wliii active forelRn demand' h;ii given nn upward swing to the Wheat market this week. Compared with n week ago, wheat prlres ihl 1 morning worr- 4lc to 6c hli:li--r, corn varied rrom 1 to j1' higher, and, oam i r- down 10 to lic In pro- I visions the difference ranged from 75c I decline to a rise of 7 V. Aggressive buying developed In the wheat ninrkri Immediate!) following the issuance of the government crop report. The government figures in-dlcated in-dlcated decldedl; worse damage to 1 hi. -MTing ' rup I nan mosi I rnd i s had ' looked for and hesldes a leading ex-perl ex-perl aid that North Dakota wheal , had deteriorated 1 r pei cent since tho information was obtained on which I the government report was based. 1 hen n became apparent that export demand was apreadlng out to a not-aide not-aide degree. Yesterday, however, . prospecti of an armistice led to a re- I action and so too did stoppage of railroad rail-road loading for Galveston, where the , port facilities were temporarily I swamped with grain. Haiiis which iriua!l dispelled fear hi damage b) drought kept om from sharing much In the strength 6f I Wheat, oats were depressed by the immsnse leld foreshadowed Sales to hurope made lard firm, but! . 1 1 1 : ' iv.- . . 1 i. - l.ii ! 11I Mi pp..! ! |