Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 23

* WHOLESALEPRCES ATCENTER MARKET Chickens Higher Today, But Fowl and Turkeys Are Cheaper. Federal inspectors are in evidence n an effort to prevent the receipt of diseased fowls from distant points. Very few ilve fowl are received here from points heyond Maryland and Vir- ginia, however, and dealers have no fear that the disease will be brought here. There has been a decre in re- ceipts of live poultry and a tendency toward higher pricas, due, it i« thought, to shipments from nearby Siates be- ing diverted to New York Inciessed receipts of dressed poultiy cime to the rescue of local dealers, however, and there is no searcity of s stock in the local market. A further weakening of the turkey market was reported. Prices of most commodities remain unchanged Today's Wholexale Prices. Butter—Faney, tub, 47250 : prints, 54 Eggs—Fresh, d, 56a BS; average receipts, Cheese—Long horn, 25 0'd sharp, 5 per pound Pou'try, alive—Roosters, 16 per pound ; 38240 ; ducks, 15a20: grese, 15 ring chickens, 30; fowis, 18a20; youl 50a70 each. Dre: illed Spring chickens, 25u26 roasters, roosters, 18 ; fow 435 turkey Keats, 80 each: ducks capons, 40a45. Live stock—Calves, choice, 11% : me- dium, 10al1; thin, 6a7; lambs, Spring, 13; live hogs, 11al2, Meats—Beef, 12al5; lamb, 25a2 Fruits and Vegetnbles. Today's market report oh fruitsand vegetables, compiled by the Market News Service, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, says: Apples—Supplies moderate; a moderate, market steady: barrel Maryland, Virginia and West Vir- ginia, A inches up, Staymans. 6.00a6.50; Yorks, 5.0085.50; Delicious, 7.00a8.00; A 2% Inches up, St ans, 6€.50a7.00; boxes, Washington, medium to large sizes extra fancy Staymans and Romes, 3.15a825; Winesaps and Spitzenburgs, mostly 3.25; Delicious, mostly 4.25; bushel baskets, no sales reported. Cabbage—Supplies liberal: demand light, market steady; New York, bulk, per ton, Danish type, 27.00a30.00. Celery—Supplies libe: demand moderate, market steady; California, crates, 5.50a6 00: New York, % crates, mostly 3.00 Lettuce—Supplies moderate; de- mand moderate market steady; Flor- 1da, 11%4-bushel hampers type. best, mostly 1.00a1.50; ‘Californt. type, medium sizes, large sizes, 2.00a3.50 Onlons—Supplies moderate; demand moderate, market steady; New York and Ohio, 100-pound sacks, Yellows, United States No. 1, medium to large size, 3.00a3.25, few low as 2.90 Potatoes—Supplies moderate; de- mand moderate, markest steady; Mich- igan, 150-pound sacks, Russet Rurals, United States 1, 2.25a235 per sack; New York, 150-pound sicks Round Whites, United States mostly 2.25 per sack veal, 18, and fair quality, crates, Iceberg 3.75; small and Tomato Demand Light. Tomatoes—Supplies lirht; demand g market steady; Ohio, Hothouse, 10-pound baskets, medium size, 3.50; small size, 2 Florida 6s, turning, wrapped, best, fancy count, 7.00; choice count, 600; Gems, 4.50a5.00. Canlifiower—Supplies light: demand light, market steady; California, crates, be: 3.25a8.50; fair quality 2.50a2.75. Strawberries—Supplies light; mand slow, market dull; pony refrigerators, 50a60, per quart String beans—Supplies liberal: de- mand light, market weak: Florida, 74-bushel hampe: green, best, 4.50; fair qualit 24.00; some ordinary quality and condition low as 2.50, Squaxh Prices Lower. Supplies light; demand good good stock, market steady; Fior- 7 -bushel hampers, best, 5.00; fair to ordinary quality, range in prices, 2.50a3.50. Squash—Supplies increasing; de- mand moderate, market weak; Flors ida, pepper crates, white, 4.50a5.00. Peppers—Supplies light; demand moderate, market steady; Florida, crates, fancy, 7.00. Euggplant and cucumbers—No sup- plies on market. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. BALTIMORE, Md, December 30 (Special),—White potatoes, 100 pounds, 1.00a1.50; sweet potatoes, barrel, 2.00a 5.50; vams, barrel, 3.50a4.50; beans, bushel, 4.00a5.00; beets, hundred, 4.00a 5.00; broccoli and kal brussels sprouts, quart, bage, hundred, 3.00a 40a65: carrots, hu caulifiower, 1.5024.00; cucumber: : eggplants, crate, 3.00a4.50 lettuce, bushel, 1.0042.00; onlons, 100 pounds, 2.50a2.90; oysterplants, hun- dred, 6.00a8.00; parsnips, basket, 60; peas, hamper, 4.00; crate, 3.00a5.50 h, bushel, 1.00a 1.25; squash, crate, 4.00a4.50; tomatoes, crate, 4.50a8.00; turnips, basket, 40a 0. Apples (packed barrel), 2. bushel, 75a2.00; cranberries, box 7.50; grapefrui box, oranges, box, 3.00a4.00. Selling Prices at Noon. Wheat—No. 2 red Winter, spot, ex- port, 1.81%, nominal; No. 2 red Win- ier, spot, domestic, 1.87 No. 2 red Winter, garlicky. domestic, 1.87% ; No. 3 red Winter, garlicky, no quotation. Sales—None. Corn--Cob, new, 6.10 per barrel; trac No. 2, old, 1.45. de- Florida, mostly 55 wide, ilow, spot, 6.00a corn, yellow, Oats—No. 2, new, 67a67% bushel; No. 3, no quotation. Rye—Nearby, 1.15a1.25; No. 3 rye, spot Hay—Receipts, per 75 tons. Demand for hay show: some improvement, but is centercd entirely upon the better descriptions of timothy and light clover mixed, of which grades there is no oversupply on spot. Me- dium and low grade hay is in ample recelpt, and poor and weedy and grassy mixtures are hard to move at any price Quotations 220.50; today—No. No. 3 1 timothy, 1 timothy, 16.00a 18.00 219.00 1 clover, mixed, 17.50a 18.00; clover, mixed, 15.00a16.00. Straw—No. 1 wheat, 12.00a13.00 per ton; No, 1 oat, 13.00a14.00 per ton. Big Bass Stopped Mill. ¥rom the Wall Street Journal. August Jensen's flour mill at Reyn- olds, Del., came to a sudden step. There was plenty of water in the pond, but the wheels refused to turn. Jensen made an investigation and found that the mill wheel had been stopped by a huge black bass that had been drawn into the race and wheel, The fish weighed fust 10 pounds and 8 ounces. No. e e It has been estimated that the aver- age man walks about four feet a sec- ond, and that in an hour he covers three miles. A-horse trots 10-feet @ seooud, or seven mi.es an hour, Rig Boston | | the Jordan. fof the | dimensia 4.60a | bushel, 40a60; | |tully five times as plentiful. | tion of the potassium salts, | surface lies approximately 1,300 feet 50a | peppers, | No. 1 light clover, mixed, 18.50 | SILK PLANT OPENS, Cumberland Mills Plans for Rapid Expansion. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md.,, December 80.— Manufacture of artificial silk began at the plant of the American Cellu- lose and Chemical Co., Ltd., on Friday and was continued today with addi- tional machinery. Production of the! skein and varn will be greatly en- larged, as the machinery is erected. About 550 are employed at the plant and the chemical factory, Including the officlal and supervising forces, and several hundred will be added as pro- duction increases. DEAD SEA WATERS PROLIFIG IN POTASH Enormous Supplies Easily Extracted From “Sinkhole of World,” Is Belief. { Enormous cupplies of potash can be easily extracted from the waters of the Dead Sea, according to recent assertions. “The Dead Sea the world.” is the sinkhole of says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the Na- tional Geographic Society. “In no other continent is there such a deep depression In the earth's crust, nor will one find greater desolation or more uncomfortable conditions for man and most other living thing even in the hearts of the greatest deserts. Land of Sodom and Gemorrha. “The Hebrew Scriptures have thrown an atmosphere of tragedy about this country. There, the chronicle states, were situated the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomor- rha, deitroved by the wrath of Jehovah, and there the modern reader Sces the blasted region, seared by unbearable heat, with its bitter death- | dealing waters, to prove the story to his satisfaction. “According to the biblical narrative, the Jordan Valley and the plain near its mouth on the shores of the Dead Sea where the destroyed cities. lay shared the early good fortune of the promised land itself and ‘flowed with | milk and honey. But an end was | Put to this pleasant condition by the rain of brimstone and fire. eology Indicates Vast Age. “The story of the region deciphered from its rocks by geologists begins much earller than the days of the| i patriarchs whose actions are record- ed in the Bible. This record seems to findicate that Palestine and the whole we tern end of Arabia rose from the sea a million or more ye. ago in what geologists term the Tertiary era. Shortly after the rise. it seems, a reat slice of the land parallel to the coast of the Mediter- ranean sank to great depth, forming the huge rift valley, ‘the Ghor,' now occupied by the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. “It is not clear whether there was a connecting channel between the Mediter- ranean and the great valley; but a well defined ancient beach Indicates that in those remote times the great' de- pression held & sea or lake at about the same level as that of the Mediter- ranean. The Jordan did not then exist; its entire valley as well as the Sea of Galilee was swallowed up in the par- ent of the Dead Sea, which was sqme 200 miles long and ‘10 to 15 miles wide. Cllmate Probably Meist. “It is Delleved that the climate of Palestine in remote tinves was moist and that .the great inland lake was for a while kept at its highest point. When drier conditions set in the lake began to shrink, eventually retreating into the present position of the Dead Sea and exposing the vailey now ocecupled by This is practically the only large river in the world which flows in a valley ready-made for It almost from source to moyth. “The Dead Sea depression having no outlet, all the salts contained in the large original inland sea were retained when evaporation reduced the volume dy of water to its presen ns.” In addition, for hundreds of thousands of vears the Jordan and the other streams and torrents that flow from the desert hills into the basin | have been carrying in additional salts | until now the waters of the Dead S constitute one of the most highly con- centrated natural brines in existence. It is estimated that on the average some six milllon tons of water flow into. the Dead Sea daily, and since the level of the sea changes but little, an equal amount is pumped out dally by evap- oration. Ratio of Dissolved Solids. Vhereas ocean water contains about one-twentleth of its welight in dissolved solids, the solids in solution in Dead Sea water make up ome-fourth of its welght. Potassium chloride makes up about one-fifteenth of the total solids, but common salt (sodium chloride) is The ix therefore, might be somewhat difficuit on a com mercial scale. “The present Dead Sea is 47 miles| long and about 10 miles wide. Its lower than sea level and at its deep- est point its bottom lies another 1,300 feet down. This great rift in the earth's crust, therefore, lies 2,600 feet below sea level and is the deepest hole in the land anywhere in the world. Because of the intense heat and dryness.and the presence every- where of salt, the land immediately about the Dead Sea is a region of desolation. On some of the flats a few straggling, thorny desert plants grow and In some sheltered wadles where the springs are fresh, small groups of palms struggle for exist- ence. Most of the area, however, is a dry, rock-waste, incrusted with salt, or nearer the sea, with slimy salt mud flats. Glance at the Long Ago. “It is quite possible that even six or seven thousand years ago, in the era to which the Biblieal chronicles reach, the then relatively moist cli- mate of Palestine made the plain near the mouth ‘of the Jordan a rich land such as that which Lot found. It is also quit possible that the ‘Cities of the Plii.'—Sodom, Gomorrhs and their fellows—perished-in a cataclysm breugh about by a modern secondary adjustment in this region of tremend- | ous earller geologic dlsturbance. “Because the intense heat and pres- sure are almost sure to prove fatal to others than the few hapless Arab no- mads that manage to survive in the region, this area has not been inten- sively studied by sclentists. It was at first thought that there is no evi- dence of recent volcanic action and that the traditional destruction of the cities by rain of fire and brimstone may have referred to the explosion of pockets of crude petroleum. A sc tist who visited the region in 1909, however, reported & small extinct volcano near the northe: of the Dead Sea, near the r of Sodom and concluded that a shower caused the catastrophe so vividly de. scribed In Genesi Somewhat Wary. From Life. = Rastus—Don’t be ‘frald of mah dawg. His bark is wuss'n his bite. tern corner |] reputed site | of ashes from this vent may have! CHEAPER ELECTRIC CURRENT FORECAST Increase in Users and Lower Plant Costs Basis for Lower Rates. BY J. C. ROYLE. Spec'al Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 30.—The number of natrons purchasing electric vower for li”htinz and other purpose: from central yower stations has in- crewsed tierendous'y in the last two vears. This has been due In large part to the tremendous volume of new bullding which has added hundreds of thousands of structures at a cost weil nbove $10,000.000,000 in that period. There are- nearly 4,000,000 more cu tomers on the books of the pewer companies now than there were two years ago. On January 1, 1923, the total number of customers was 12,- 709,888. On January 1, 1924, this num- “er had Increazed to 14,520,097 Since that time the increase has been at an even more rapid rate. Much Move Current Used. Of far more importance than the increase in the number of cusiomers, Rowever, has been the increase in the amount of current wh'ch those ers have used. The addition | cnch new customer means to the electric service company necessity for an investment of $351.30, accord- ing to the latest avallable figures. In 1923 the value of plant and equip- ment necessary to serve the 12,708, 868 was oconservatively placed by Government investigators at $4,465.- 015,691, In 1922 the total revenue of the central station companies wae $1,072,119,083. | Conts Are Reduced. Of this sum, the largest single item was renresented by the returns from the 12,260,000 customers for domestic and commercial lighting current and for domeatic power. This amountad o §507,778,604, or $41.40 a customer. By January 1, 1924, the number of customers ~for domestic light and | power and commerclal lighting cur- | rent had increased to 13,986,778, and the rate of Increase In the last 12 months has been even greater. This Increase has cut down the, amount of capital it [s necessary to| invest in plant and equipment for each customer to a marked degree, with a_corresponding Increase in the | rate of return on funds so invesated. Betterment has not been confined to| those factors alone. The amount of | current consumed and paid for by each customer has Increased without | increasing the cost of producing that | current in anything like the same| ratio. | Better Equipment Is Factor. ! This has been due to the wldcr{ | use of labor-saving household ap pliances, especially those of refriger- atlon. In the larger centens. the equipment of new houses and apart- | ments with electric refrigerators has | bacome the rule rather than the excep- | tion. The comparative cost of the use of | such equipment as compared with ice | yirias with locallty, byt in gederal| electrical engineers say it is slightly | more expensive than for the old type! ice container. This is counterbal- anced however by its convenience and | other advantages. | So extensive has the use of these | home refrigeration plants become | that central power statfons have had| to organize speclal service stafts to| make prompt repairs and adjustments, | o that perishable comodities shnll] have no time to spoil. | Lower Rates Predicted. | These factors are all tending to-| ward a readjustment and lowering of rates for clectric current to the con- sumer and for increased use of ad-| ditional current. The public service | companies must receive a fair and | adequate return on their in in plant and equipment, else cannot secure the funds necessary to ! finance new installations and replace- | ments. But if the customers increase | and the amount neceswary to invest | per customer decreases and the amount of current used and pald for | violds_a greater net revenue, they an afford to readjust their rate on a different basis than that now main- tained, according (o experts in the! power and lighting field Growth In Tremendous. Many of the latter expect almost| as marked development from In-| creased use of domestic and com mercial current In the next few years | as took place In the period after| September 4, 1382, when Thomas A. Edison opened the Pearl street, New Yorlk, central station with a load of 400 lamps. Oue single unit in the present Hell Gate statfon of the New | York Edison Company will light 1,400,000 25-watt lamps. In that first station 78 men were employed. The lighting branch of the present elec- trical industry employs over 150,000 men today. B. & 0. AFTER EQUIPMENT. Railroad Expects Still Heavier Trafic During 1925. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, December 30.—The | Baltimore and Ohlo Rajlroad {s mak- | ing inquiries for 3,000 gondola cars of the largest type, 2,000 box car bod- ies and 1,000 flat car bodies. Several manufacturers will submit bids for the equipment. The Baltimore and Ohlo has ample rolling stock at the present time, but, | like other big carriers, it belleves | that freight tonnege in 1925 will set a new high record and wishes to be In position to obtain and handle its full mhtrr of ‘the trafic. ON CHRISTMAS 3% SAVINGS BRANCH OFFICE DISTRICT NATIONAL BANK Conn. Ave. and K Street SERVICE Bervice Station building, egquipment and experienced MEN assure you really satisfactory merv- fce. WASHING and polishing day and . night. CARS culled for and delivered snywhere at EXPERIENCED | | | | We Pay Interest revullding and lu. brieation. i FILLING atation avafl timen. service. TIRE and tube vepairing. STORAGE and wpeelal service to meet your indi- vidual requirements. ROAD wervice upon eall at Sam—Yas, but Ah zin't heerd his growl yet. g » «Q Telephone West 2443 THE ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET CHICAGO, December 30 (United States Department of Agriculture).— Hogs—Recelpts, 74,000 head; fairly active; mostly steady to 10c lower: lighter weight, pigs and medium mixed droves showing more decline; early top, 10.95; bulk desirable 220 to 300 pound averages, 10.50810.90; 160 to 200 pound kind, 9.85a10.40 moat packing sow: . dof excepting better grades year- lings and handy welght, very draggy bidding unevenly and In Instance sharply lower; few early sales 50c or more under last week’s high time; moderate sprinkling good to choice heavies; none sold; best handy welight early, 11.25; vearlings, 11.50; cholce to prime yearlings practically absent; killing quality fed steers very plain: ehe stock weak to 25c lower; heifers showing more decline in spots; bulls steady; recent broad shipping de- mand for vealers subsiding; killers bidding around 1.00 lower; few early | sales vealers to outsiders upward to 15.00; now bidding, 14.00 and below; packers mostly 1100 downward Sheep—Recelpts, 36,000 head; ex- tremely dull; large run slow in ar- riving; no early business on killing classes; shipping orders very light; packers not operating; talking 1.00 or more lower; one bid of 17.00 on %00d lambs; prospect sharply lower; one load cholce 50-1b, feeders, 16.00; looks 1.00 lower, Treat in Store for Him. From the London Answers. Customer (after long waiting)— Walter, have you ever been to the 2007 Walter—No, sir. “Well, you ought to go. You would enjoy seein & the tortoise whizz | I you need work, read columns of The Star. the want Three - piece Console Set with purchase of $25 to $50. i t H i H chase of $75. D’nnerware or Silv Set with purchase $100 or more. Morris Chair With Imitation Leather Seat and Back $Q.15 Easy Credit Terms A Wrought Iron Bridge Lamp ‘with pur- CHICKEN INDUSTRY THRIVING INU.§. 475,000,000 Raised During Past Year — 3,500,000 Turkeys Also Grown. Speelal Dispatch to The Btar, NEW YORK, December 30.—The Christmas turkey and his associate, the chicken, which have graced our tables in the United States during the holiday period, calls attention, savs the Trade Record of the National City Bank, to the enormous numbers and big values of this factor In our do- mestic product, which exceeds that of any other country in the world. The East Indlans, who domesticated the jungle fowl and thus originated the domestic fowl which we term the chicken, did not realize the boon which they were conferring on man- kind the world over. The rapld growth of this factor of the domestic crop in the United States is shown by the fact that the census figures, which put the number of chickens on farms in the United States at 234,000,000 in 1900, reported a figure of 260,000,000 in 1920, and the De- partment of Agriculture puts the number in 1924 at 475.000,000, while| the value of chickens on farms is| stated by the Department of Agri-| culture at $350,000.000 in 1924 and of | eggs about $600,000,000 in that year Of turkeys, a distinctly Amerfcan fowl, the Agriculture Department States the number in 1920 at about 2,500,000 The chicken crop of the United| er of €., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924. States is chlefly produced In the Upper Mississippi Valley, where most of the grain on which they are fed is grown. Of the total number of chickens re- ported on the farms in the United States in 1920 about one-half were existing in the north central section and Includes the States Iying west of New York and Pennsylvania, north of Ohlo_and extending as far West as the Missouri River. The chicken crop of the United States participated n the advance in values which bas characterized all claszes of foods In recent years. The farm prices of chickens are reported by the Department of Agriculture at 10.7 cents per pound for 1913, ad- vancing to 29.6 cents per pound in 1920, while the farm vaiue of eggs advanced from 26.8 cents per dozen on January 1, 1913, to 44.2 cents on January 1, 1923. Recent authoritles hold out the hope of a readjustment of Winter prices owing to the utiliza- tion of electric lights and heat in turning the Winter climate into Sum- mer in the buildings constructed for the homes of the fowl, and thus assur- ing a lower rate fn Winter prices of €S Poultry considerable item in the forelgn com- | merce of the United States, the value | of czgs exported from this country in the past dozen vears having ex- ceeded $100,000.000, while the eggs in:ported in varlous forms, especially from China, have aggregated about $40,000,000. and its products form a| All Fixed Up. From the Kansas City Star. | Tony was being examined in the| Civil Service commissioner’s room fo: a laborer's position. He was fluent in most of his answers, and It ap- | peared he would pass without any | difficulty But his downfall came when the asked if he had been naturalized. i He seemed a bit puzzled, but at last his face lighted up and he said:| “Ah, T know whata you mean. Scratcha da arm, Yes, lasta week."” I Store Hours, 8to 6 ' | chickens, | Japanese, DAIRY PRODUCE. BALTIMORE, December 30 (Spe- cial).—Live poultry—Young chickens, pound, 25a30; Leghorns, 20a25; old hens, 25a28; Leghorns, 18az0; roost- ers, 18; young turkey: poor and crooked breasts 20a30; geese, 25a32; pigeon guinea fowl, each 45as5. Dressed poultry—Turkeys, pound, 85a45; poor and crookéd breasts, 25; 25a32; old roosters, 18§; ducks, 25a30; geese, 25a30. Eggs—Receipts, 1,000 cases; native and nearby firsts, dozen, offered 56; no bid quotations. Butter—Creamery, 600, 40adb: prints, 453%ad47%%: nearby creamery, 35a40; ladles, 30a32; store packed 24a25; process butter, 33a34; rolls, 26a27; dairy prints, 25a27, Game—Rabbits, nearby, choice, dozen, 1.00a5.00; fair to good, 2.00a3.00. good to fancy, New Vitamines. From the Philadeiphia Inquirer. Scientists at the University of Call- fornla are working on two recently discovered vitamines which may prove of great importanhce in length- ening life and in preventing animal sterility. One is a vitamine discovered in tea. It has been pamed “blos” and is sup. posed to have 300 times the life-giv ing qualities of other similar vita- mines previously found In yeast “Blos” was discovered, it is reported, as a result of observations that tea drinking peeples, Including Chinese, Irish and English, are longer lived than some other nation- alities. The second substance discovered, a flake extracted from wheat, is sald to have increased animal fertility to a marked degree. However, the sub- stance s present in such small quantities that only a few flakes were secured from a ton of grain. China has a population approx- imate'y eaual to that of the whole Firitish Empire. “The Jlationals Pre-Inventry Sale! 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