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so they still published this in The Wall Street Journal as of 2001.
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So, let me just use this as an example.
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What is this? This is corn; that's maize.
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It was--what this means is that one contract is a contract
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to deliver 5,000 bushels
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and the price here is shown in cents per bushel
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These are the contracts; there is a--now this is--
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today is March 15, 2001
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there's a May contract, a July contract,
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and this is--this shows the price over today
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which is March 15, 2001.
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The guys in the pit at the--this stands for Chicago Board of Trade.