Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — FROM COMMERCE REPORTS [ARTICLE]

FROM COMMERCE REPORTS

For this year the crop forecast in Norway is distinctly favorable. Persia is a possible source of greater quantities of sugar than heretofore. Argentina’s corn crop is estimated at 4,335,000 tons, of which 2,500,000 tons can be exported. J Norway’s spring herring catch was not quite equal to last year’s either in quantity or value. Bean cake, produced In large quantities in south Manchuria, can be used as food, although heretofore considered as good for little else than fertilizer. For ten years after the close of the war the Importation of dyestuffs into Great Britain will be under goverfiment control in order that the new British dye industry may be maintained.