Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-27
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO, December o7.-Tfe wheat
market was firm during early trading to-
day. due chiefly to a sharp bulge in
corn prices. The market, however, was
bullishly affected to some extent by
brisk demand for the cash grain. Com
mission houses were the principal bidders,
but demand was not extremely urgent
Opening quotations showed gains. of = to
n cent, with May at Lila to 1.11ssa
1:11ha. After selling at Lila the May OPP
ton dropped back to 1.111sa1. liz. Active
demand by leading bulls caused advances
of haA to Ia in the price Of corn on
initial transactions. The greatest gain
was in the December delivery, which
opened at 63A to 641s. May opened at
t67 to 61h. After touching 64s, December
settled back to 81. May advanced to 677s
and then declined to 67Aa67ss.
and corn. Offerings were light early in
the day. May opened Is higher. at 457s
advanced to 46 and then sold off to 45a4.
Trading in provisions was exceedingly
quiet at the start, but the market was
firm because of the strength in grain.
Prices at the opening were unchanged to
10 cents higher.
Close: wheat-December, 1.1sa; May.
1.11ha1.1lx; July. 1.01.
66ka67.
Oats-December. 44N; May. Asa: July,
Pork-January. o1.s5; May. 2175a21. TN.
1.ard-January. 1895; May, 11.921sa
Ribs-January, 11.5O; May, 11.4O: July.
11.4O.
Rye-Cash. 77as1.
Barley-Cash, 57a7O.
Timothy-March. S.95a4.OO
Clover-March, 1900.
New York Quotations.
NEW YORK, December 27.-Butter-
Steady: receipts, $685. packages Cream
cry specials. So: extras. 81: third to first,
29aS6: held. seconds to specials. 29a3312
state dairy, common to finest, 26a34; pro-
cess. first to specials, 26a2s1a; western
factory. seconds to first. 24a25: western
imitation creamery, 26a2S.
theese-F1rm: receipts. oSI packages.
state new full cream, specials, liz IS;
do. September, >fancy, II; do. October,
common to good. 13a15; skins. full to
specials, 5a141z.
Eggs-Steady; receipts. 3.427 cases
State. Pennsylvania and nearby hennery,
do. hennery. brown and mixed fancy.
38a4O; do. gathered brown, fair to prime,
32a37; western extra first 33a3i: first,
31a32; seconds. 2Sa30; refrigerators.
21a25.
Flour-Dull and without quotable change.
Receipts, $1,000 barrels.
Rye-Steady: No. 2 western, S4H NOM
inal f. o. b. New York.
Wheat-Bad weather west, prospects of
smaller receipts commission houses buy
ing and strength of corn caused higher
opening in wheat. Later there was a
slight setback under realizing. May.
/. Is LIE; July, 1O45sa1. O9A. Re-
ceipts, 5000 bushels.
Corn-Kec eipts, 6S625 bushels.
Beef-S.eady.
Pork-Steady.
Lard-Ffrm: middle west. 13.Oja13.15.
Sugar-Raw quiet: muscovado, SO test,
362; centrifugal. 96 test, 4.O2: molasses
sugar. SO test, 3.27: refined quiet; crushed.
5.65; granulated, 4.95: powd cred, sos.
Petroleum-Steady; refined, all grades,
sos.
Enthusiastically; New Orleans open
kettle, 32a42.
An advance of more than 3 cents in
stampede among shorts, was the feature
From 1.161s the price rose to 1.19%. May
| IN the meantime advanced from 1.1OAa
LII to 1.121z. The market reacted ma
terially late in the session. owing to talk
Of liberal worlds shipments for the week.
The close was fairly steady, with De-
cember up 1s at 1.1Ss. May was asa1s
her at l.11ka1 lis.
Nearly all the gain in corn was SUBJ
sequently lost on profit-taking, December
selling off to 63. The close was steady,
with December and May each up 4 at
% and 6a67ls