Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1926, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1926 producers generally haul their own products to market or. sell direct to COMMODITY NEWS SELING PRODUCE BY WAL FALS hucksters at the farm. Those living a it to small towns péddle to WIRED STAR FROM consumers or deliver to grocery stores. 5 In the larger cities ther ENTIRE COUNTRY 2.—Bankers re seriously cotton sur- “ATLANTA, March and supply merchant; alarmed over the hea consumer the former L . with medium | plus, and are using every means in Farmers Take Little Interest | tneo: I at ‘current | their power to induce curtailment of market quotations. cotton ac e in 1926. The present 3 5 Professional hucksters are active| piice of cotton is below the cost of + in Post Office Plan to Give ;. " et * | production, they towns. They travel ———— i routes collecting S ANGEL, Tex., March 2.— Parcel Post Aid. S abog ¢ in sheep sales is at a high present. Colorado buyers acted for 16,000 yearlings in the last two days for very. The price was not announced. e "HILADELPHIA, March 2—Sales of new automobiles at wholesale here increased 10.7 per cent in the last month, as compared with the corre- sponding time in 1925. Sales of used cars fell off. MADISON, Wis, March 2—New £ 12 cents a pound for stand- cents a pound for cli- of binder twines manu- the Waupun, Wis relative to the growth in the popula- tion of the country. Farm produc- . [ tion in proportion to urban popula- tion has decreased 20 per cent since 1 1900, according | the vield per a has ‘declined 4 per reh 1 ;o the incipal croy cent sinCe that return on the total capital in- ind_buyind| v 1 in agriculture, includin ts are announced by the + the plan | nd she 3 d_of control. The old t of dis-|has averaged only 4 per cent since were 107 cents for standard ducer and lower | 1920, and the net re on the in- ¢ cents for climax. turn ois dividual farm oy investmé: BOSTON, March r the mo- | ment conditions in » gland tex- tile circles improving. Mills In Fall River averaging about 70 per y, cotton con- sumption is increasing, and idle looms are being started up, although ns of profit are narrow. . P RECEIPTS EXCEED SALES. Maryland Market Continues Active at Steady Prices. Spectal Dispateh to The Star. March 2.—Receipts 0 last week ceeded sales, heing 165 hogs- 1les of 145 hogsheads. inues active, with ed at about last are cent of capacl : ) living, the purch: | unnual income 4 per cent 914 period. | PHONE NET IMPROVES. I' two |C. & P. Co. of Maryland Reports January Earnings 18 comy January, 19 the publi c i | ives. Quotations today for the 44 1 d tobacco per 100 pound cansideral Maryland, interior and frosted, firm leaf, 4.00 to 9.00; sound common . nd g , 1000 td 15.00; good comnion, 00 to 25.00; medium, | 26.00 to good to fine red to 53.00 , 54.00 to 5 : sec- onds, common to medium, 6.00 to 20.00; seconds, good to fine, 31.00 to 00: upper country, air cured, 8.00 40.00; ground lea ) 16, ) | SCUTHERN RAILWA '~ REPORTS FOR JANUARY | Demand Lacking. on the experiment LEAD PRICES REDUCED. NEW YORK, ¢h 2 (A).—The n Smeltin ed the fixed is_equal | 0,000,000 8,000, T Carmania, B. & 0. 99 YEARS OLD. February in 1827. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March February 28, 1827. Art Here Wednesday . From 4:30 to 5:30 P.M. Some of His 550-D—“She's My Gal.” HARRY C. HE Sign of the Times, now, as eighty-six years ago, points to Cunard as the world’s highway from America to Europe. 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