Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1926, Page 31

FIN FARMERS URGED 0 CANDLE EGGS U. S. Officials Aiding Raisers. Prices Little Changed in Center Market. Interast shown hy officials of the Department of Agriculiure in the egg industry is helieved by lecal dealers | to result in much good to raisers. | Wholesalers and consumers. Dealers | say ghere are (oo many poultry raisers ! whe _neglect to take the proper care n gathering and handling egge. Eggs should he gathered several times a day, a dealer remarked, espe- | cially at this season of the vear, when | the sun i1s gradually increasing the temperature. Hens will lay about jn the grass, the dealer stated. and eggs gathered from such nests should he carefully inspected hefore shipping. Efforts are heing made to have poulixy raisers and shippers candle their supplies hefore shipping. and such candling. it is urged. would be heneficial to a1l concerned. It would ellminate lar condemnations by f agents of the Department of Agrrienl ture -from time fo time and put the Summer sgg husiness on a substan tial basis Packers are pniting away supplies | for their trade next Winter. They obtain the hest supplies possible. it | is stated. earefully candle each egx| and put them on the market in early | Winter. when the supply of fresh stock fs not so plentiful Fi£g prices have undergone hut little changes the past few davs. Cur rent receipts were quoted at 28 and 28 this morning and fresh selected at 29 and 81. Hennery ogzs nt this season sell ‘at’ ahout 1 cent a dozen In ad- vance of the fresh selected. all eggs supposed to he fresh at this season. Market Prices Today. 16a Faney 1-pound prints, ed current alive, Plymonth 33860 40245 nery, 32a33 Poul broilers, ers, 11 1t 40215, 35: Spring | Rock brofl- | smaller. | Winter | and aver, 40a45 23: dueks. young, keats. voung, 80R%05 old sed— Turkeve, 40a45: broil | ers, £0aR3: fowls, 33: keats, young, 30a 1.00. old. 50380 Live stock--(alves, choice, Alum. 10a11: thin. 7as: hogs. and medium. 131y: lizht, choice, lambs, 16a1 Meats—Reef 16al7: lamh, 29al3; veal, 2 Aressed pork, heavy, 18 pork 34a33: Western. 30a32: hamg, shoulders, 22223 \ Fr and Vegetable Review. oday’s market report on fruits and vegetables (compiled by the Market News Service Bureau of Agricultural Economics) says: Apples—Supplies moderate; demand light, market steady; barrels, Mary- land and Virzinia, A 213-inch Wine- =aps, 6.00a6.50. A 215.inch, 4.5085.00: A 2lzinch Yellow Newtowns. 5.50a A.00, few £.50: boxes, Washington, medium to large size. extra fancy Winesaps, 2.73a3.00, mostly 2.7 fancy Romes, 2.50, Asparagus- Supplies light: demand moderate, market strong; South Caro. dozen bunch crates. green, very large cize, 7.00: large size, 5.008.00; small size, 2.0024.00 Cabhage—Supplies light, market steadr. South Carolina, 13 bushel hampers. polnted tvpe, 1.75..harrel crates. 2.25a2.50. Lettuce—Supplies e mand moderate, market steadv: Ari- 7ona and California. northern dis- es, Iceherg type. 4-5 dozen, , few 4.25. North Carolina, . Big Boston type. poor quality, 1.00 wsters 12; me- heavy 15; libaral: demand 2.0022.50 a1.50, Onions—Supplies moderate: de- mand light., market dull: Texas. standard crates, Yellow Bermudas. U. 8, No. 1, 2.50a2.65. Potato Market Dull. Potatoes—Supplies moderate; de- mand moderate, market dull; old stock, Michigan, 150-pound sacks, Russet Rurals, U. S.. No. 1. 7.75a8.00: stock. Florida. douhle-head har- Spaulding Rese, I". &, No. 1. 10.56a11.00. Spinach— Homegrowns the market Strawberries—Supplies wand good, market strong: pany refrigerato; mostly 45 per ! anart: h olinas, 32-quart | rrates, Missionaries, 10.00a11.00 per crate. Tomatoes supplying | light: de- | Florida, | Supplies modera mand moderate, market stead: . &=, vipes and turning wrapped, count. £.00a7.00: cheice ecount, 0 de. heans - Supplies light: de-| moderate, market stronger; . 7a-bi. hampers. green, hest. fair quality and condition, | Supplies moderate: de mand moderate, market dull; Texas, hushel haskets. 2.00a2.50, supplies light: demand mod. market dull; Texas, bushel | 2.00a2.50. Supplies moderate: demand moderate, market steady: South lina. bushel hamy Laxtons, small pod varieties, 2.3023.00 Cucumbers— Supplies moderate: de- mand light, market steady: [linofs, 2 doz. cartons hothouse stock. dou- hle extras, 3.30, extra faney, 3.00, i Carrots COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY Mass.. April 30.—The | factory of the Draper Corporation, manufacturers of textile machinery, will go on a five-day-a-week schedule Saturday instead of six days. It is hoped to ime full time in June. This action reflects the dullness in the New England textile industry. HOPEDALE. POMONA, Calif.--The shipments of navel oranges next week will prac- tleally clean up the navel orange crop the Pomona Valley. which returned Sraters approximately $8.000.000. DETROIT Sales of the Willys. Overland six so far this vear have been at the rate of 5 a vear increase over 19 were disposed of. reported very low and the col pany anticipates an acute shortage within 30 day PORTLAND, Oreg. Heavy sales have heen made in the Columbia {ver district this week of red fir logs t $16 a thousand feet, according to John T. Dougall, manager of the Loggers’ Bureau. PHILADELPHIA — Demand for fullfashioned silk hosiery for women ie well above production at the local milis, which are working at a high rate. In this district the plants are working at a rate of over 1,100,000 dozen pairs a month of all classes of hosfery. SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—The tomato pack of the Missouri-Arkansas region will*be very high grade but small, ac- f}rlfimz to American Can Co. officials. Nereage this year was rigidly cut down. The east Texas acreage is up 20 per cent. but the crop will not ex- read that of 1925, owing to weather reamage. Flor-| | ANCIAL, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. NEW YORK CURB MARKET Received by Private Wire BY Wi AM F. HEFFER) NEW YORK, AN. April 30.—-Operations for the rise proceeded quietly on the Curh Fxchange today, the market iving no indication of general re- newal of public participation. The volume of (ransactions was not as large as it had heen on recent days and no attempt was made by those working for higher prices to push their slight advantage. Ol shares were the center of inter- #st, advances in numerous instances heing quite pronounced. Those who looking forward to the merger this and that company hased the upward movement on these possibill- ties. But the more accurate explana- tion probahly was that they had ~ NEW_YORK, April 30.—Following is an official liat of bonds and stocks traded in on the New York Curb Market today Sales in RONDS, thousands. K A3 106% 1067 1087, % a9 ey . : eneral Pei 3u AR% rand Triunk 61,100 Gulf 0 Corp 1007, Lehigh Pow & A - M Loew's 6 P 30Nk Steel e A T Pan Am Pet 6. i Park & Tilford 8 98 11 Penn Ohio . fie & 1011 T Ponn P & 2 9 100 M 108 Sercice Eler DI A Schulte R E 3 Shawsheen Calit Edicon heast” P&T, YK Stutz_ Motor 10 Sun ‘01l 315 aswin & Co % e A7 Sa 22328333 533333% 3332333333 $ FOREIGN BONDS. 1 Antinana 7 Cologne Biys .. 10 Danish Cona’ 51% 10 Firope M&T 7138 5 Gen' EI SsomoDDIRIDDY SEREEREREE S 333 ¥ B Denmk atherland As 0 5l 3: 53 SRS Fé 732 L s 2 a? it B — 323333233 e 3535 SRR 2 ] 2 0m h g 249 B i i = 3 3 3 3 »933: 2332 3 »933 3332 I3 STANDARD OIL, ISSUES 17 Salee in Unjts. 100 Al 3, 3~ - e - 533 i 35 Lot 52 5= 23298 B 200000 R ESE IS S [ 23333% £+ & 35 2! PEELSTITEE FEE e Rt s 3 2 > [Ty 199N SN A R IMAIDS = LEREIRIFRRAAIE=NITS 333 323 3333 o Washington Stock Exchange SALES Potomae Electrie Power 78 '41—$1.000 at 1062, Riges National Rank-—1 at ¢55. Amarican Serurits & Troat €o.—-20 at 384 A Tranafar & Storae rom.—30 hanta’ Transter & Stérage pfd.—10 Mar at 1007, AFTER CALL. Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co.—1 at 280, 3 st 280, Money-—Call loans, 5 and 8 per cent. Bid and Asked Prices. BONDS. POBLIC UTILITY, 4 American Tel. & Tel American Tel. & Tels Am. Te al. ot). tr. Anacostia & Pot. R Ana. & Pof. guar. C.&P. T & P T Capital Traction ity & Suburban 3. Georgetown Gas 1st Bs Potomac Be. Potomas Anked. relenhone lee Elec. 5 Pow X Wash Waeh.. Ralt. Washington Washington Wash, Rwy. Wash. R MISCELLANEOD! D. C._Paper Co. Mfc. 8 & Pot. Joint (lm‘k“l.d Bl Wash. Ml PUBLIC UTILITY Amer. Tel. & Telga Capital Traction Washington: Gas Norfollc & W Potoman Elec” pid. oo Tt eifl o Ry & Riec. com Wash Rws. & Elec. pfd...- NATIONAL BANK National Capital 290 Columbia Natiol Commercial Liberty Lincoln Nationa & Trust : SAVINGS BANK American .. Corcoran Firemen's National Union. TITLE INSURANCE. Golumbia Title. .. . g Al tate Title.: [ .. Title & Ins. Co. Md. com. MISCELLANEOUS. National Peoples Lanston Mor Securits Sto ;w-.mnam *Ex \ Direct te The Star Office shared least In previous campaig: for higher prices. and in view of the strengthened technical position of the industry and the outlook for higher crude and_refined quotation were in a better position to respond |to_renewed buying. Humble Oil, new: Prairle Ol and Gas, Ohlo Ofl, Tmperial of Canada and Standard of Indiana were prom- |inent in the Standard group. South { American iusues. which had heen held in check by profit taking. started forward again, giving the impression that vealizing had been pretty well comple! Carih Syndicate galned almost 2 polnts an Transport class “A” was bought at improved prices. Redbank was a fea. !ture of tha independents, getting to 29. D100t 100t T 011, STOCKS. 1408 O Neh. 2003 O N ’5 400 Vacuum 0if | Sales INDEPEND! | in hundreds. 1 Amer Con 28 Oilfidn, Co Ser it Serv it Sarv Alt Ck Prod .. i er Of. . dewater Oil ‘pf. anezuelan Pet ow & L nw Pow & 1, ofd Prod. re 0 Gas & Auto “Co lise. E W nw loomingdale B v 1 rideesort | Meh rit-Am Tob Cou 2 Co.. 264 ‘4 Ec 22peeRITETL 2, 225 “hilds Co ol lina 2352 ing aking pf 1 P‘ ww 1 Cuneo Press 4. 3 Curtiss Aero M Curtiss Aer M De 2 Dunhill Intl 1 D 2, SIS 5 EE S o 3B BI R 21 %D R D e M | DOBRDB a3 e b MDD 200 TG - S e = SDa T ey Y e L FEFERE e o 04310000 i3 13 13u3 Hamaeoudte PR WAL SN - 5T 13 3 DA DA it Dt DI 2 (ST B A 5 D 21 £ B 13,1359 13050 Dmmegsoniage s B3- 88B L, DR EIERRE A = or o o 0B i P KMot 2 Sierra Pac E. . §inger Mte. i mo. Uni Elee Coa) vie 6 Imp C... White Sew 7 Yel Taxi € N MINING STOCKS. hundrede. 13 Cons Cop 2% aa i 0 Forty Nine M. 7 Gold' Cent. Minei 10 Goldfield Cons .. . 2 Hecla Mine - . Jerome V. Devel Sales in 1 Walker Min GERMAN BONDS AND STOCKS. (Quoted in doflars per million marks.) oty Agked. 180. 975.00 fhousand ma; o Ger Gt (w In) s 1914- Haj 4140 1919 180.00 re. 234 T » 1919, in " dollars lec 4 3 = o 3353 o) 33 131210m 190 SrmeSOSHARS wo =5, oo aN29 2222230223224 33333333333333333 3 e ks JURY CERTIFICATES. (Quotations furnished by Redmond & Co.) e HOOD e, 1930 lu.' =§"" 1 100 5. 1827. 10¢ 0 1505 101 10 . or. 143 Mo £ s Dec. 16, 1927..0 % they | Lago Oll and| | pathy COTTON DECLINES FROMN T TOBPONTS. {Easier Liverpool Cables Causes Price to Drop. Market Is Steady. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aprit 30.-Cotton fu- tures npened steady: May, 18.78: July, 18.12; October, 17.22; December, 16.88; January, 16.78. The market atood at a decline of i to 3 points in respons { to velatively easy Liverpool cables, but was steady at the decline, with trading qulet. The decline in Liverpool was at tributed parily to the uncertainty of the British coal situation. Private cables said 90 per cent of the mills { spinning American cotton in TLan- cashire had agreed to close down all | of next weak. These features evi- | dently falled o create much selling power here, how and the mar- i ket held around 18.56 for May and { 17.20 for October at the end of the Arst hour, ar ahout 1 to 4 points net Flower New Orieans Quotations. NEW ORLEANS. April 30 | Cotian futures apened steady The market was eat in sym- with lower cables than due, first trades showing loases of 3 o 4 points. which was smaller than Jjustified by the poor advices from Liverpool. The market eased off a few points ad- | ditlonal during the Arat hour, July | trading down 10 17.47 and October and December to 18.53, or 7 to & points un. | why SCORES SERVICE CHARGES Subscriber Seeks Explanation of Telephone Call Rate: BALTIMORE, April 30.—Asking the Chesapeake and Potomac ‘elephone Co. of Washington makes a service charge of 15 cents for a call on a distance of 15 miles and a service of only 10 cents on a call of 40 miles, John . Higgins, 611 Woodward Bulld- ing, Washington, has appealed to the Maryland Public Service Commission | asking if such a charge ia legal. Mr. Higgs complains that the charge made for service to Rockville, Md.., & distance of 15 milea from Washington, Is greater than the charge for the mame service to Baltimore, Md., a dis- {tance of 40 miles. In his lattar of com- plaint Mr. Higgins says: - "1 asked an operator 1o get me Mr. Marson, at Rockville 110, and was in | formed ‘that Mr. Marson was not in |'The operator sald the charge would he the regular rate, 15 cents. Now, even though I did not get the party I asked for. T had to pay the charge. 1 call Baitimore practically every day, and when I do not get my party they aim ply charge me 10 cents. From my office 1o Baltimore it is 40 miles, and to Rockville it is only 15 miles.” i e 2 | DRY GOODS STEADY. Special Diepatch to The Star NEW YORK. April 30.—Cotton goods | markets were quiet today with prices generally unchanged. Print cloths | were queted at 7% cents for 84x60< and 8% cents for 68xi?s. Raw sllks camae down rather sharply in a dull market, the declines ranging from 10 10 15 cents a pound. . Your Banker Rnows, When in doubt about a security {consult vour banker. It {8 aqually as much his interest as voura to protect ur savings. You trust him with jyour deposits—why not trust him ’wlth vour invesiment problems? ier yesterday's close. At the end of the firat hour the market was steady at the lows. LUMBER TRADE GAINS. Marked Upturn for First Quarter 1 Reflected in Figures. A marked upturn In the lumber trade in reflected in fnformation com- he National Lumber Manu- Reports from 380 mills show & 10 | ner cent increase in total shipments { since the first of the year. as com- | pared to the same period of 1926, Cuniulative orders are running i 500,000,000 feat ahead of last vear, an inerease of 15 par cont. For last weak shipments were 30, 000,000 greater than for the corre- sponding week & véar ago POTATO MARKET WEAKER. CHICAGO. April 30 (#).—Potatoes—- Recelpts, 105 ears: total United States ahipments, 495: on track. 316; demand and trading slow: markét slightly weaker; Wisconsin, sacked round whites, 4.2024.30, mohtly 4.30a4.4 russets, 4.50a4.65; fancy. 4.75: Canada, sacked various varieties. 3.1523.60. mostly 3.25a3.50: new Atock weaker; Texas, sacked Blias Triumphs, 6.60a §.75. mostly 8.75; Florlda. barrel Spal ding Rose No. 1, 11.00a11.50. LOANS TO BROKERS. lioane to hrokera and dsalers by New York City Federal reserve mem 21 amounted to $2.464,679.000, as com pared to $2.461,339.000 the previous week, it was announced today By the | Federal Reserve Board. TWO OIL WELLS COMPLETED. NEW YORK. April 30 (#).—Sinclair 0il Corporation has completed well No. 98 in_the heavy ofl distriet of Cacalflas. Mexico, with initial pro- duction of 5,000 barrels at & depth of 1,860 fest. 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