Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 172, 31 May 1918 — Page 12
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918
MARKETS
CANADIAN SOCIETY WOMEN SEND SPHAGNUM MOSS DRESSINGS
MARKET REACHES LOW PRICE RECORD
CHICAGO. May 31. Fresh low price records for the season were reached today In the corn market. Hot. .muggy weather, just the kind to promote germination and growth, gave an advantage to the bears. Enlarged receipts counted also as a depressing factor. Opening figures, which ranged from the same as Wednesday's finish to Mc lower, with June not quoted and July 134 to 135, were followed by a little rally and then a decided set back. Oats went down grade with corn. It was said the larger shorts In the May option had settled their contracts and were out of the market. After opening 1 lower to advance with Julv 654 to 6574. the market hardened somewhat and then underwent a material sag. Provisions weakened owing chiefly to a decline in hog values. Demand was very slow.
GRAIN QUOTATIONS
unchanged. Eggs Receipts, 14,358 cases; market, lower; firsts, 3031c; lowest 26c.
Live Poultry Market lower; fowls,
27c. roosters, 21c. Potato Market Receipts, 34 cars; market unchanged.
NEW YORK STOCK LIST
NEW YORK, May 31. The closing quotations on the stock exhrange were: American Can, 43 1-2. American Locomotive, 62 1-2. American Beet Sugar, ex-div, 70 1-2. American Smelter, 74 7-8. Anaconda, 62 1-2. Atchison, 83 bid. Bethlehem Steel, bid, 78 3-4. Canadian Pacific, ex-div, 144. Chesapeake and Ohio, 58 1-4. Great Northern, pfd. 89 1-4. New York Central, 71 3-4. Northern Pacific, 86. Southern Pacific, ex-div, 82 7-8. Pennsylvania, 43 7-8. U. S. Steel Com, ex-div, 97 5-8.
LOCAL QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, May 31. The range of futures on the Chicago Board of Trade follows: No trading in wheat. Corn Open. High. Low. Close. June 132 130Vi 131 July ......134 135U 131 132 ' Oats May 74 U 75 V 72 72
Julv ..65 Govs 63'8 tii
Lard July 23.80 24.15 23.75 215 90 Sept 24.20 24.35 23.97 21.15 rnininn Mav 31. Corn No. 2 yel
low, 11.5501.61; No. 3 yellow, $1.50
1.55; No. 4 yellow, $1.37 l-z8i.4U. Oats No. 3 white, 71 1-2 73 l-2c; Standard. 7376 l-4c. Pork Nominal. Ribs, J20.8521.35. Lard, $23.90 24.00.
(Corrected Daily by Omer G. Whelan) Paying Oats, 70c; ear corn, $1.35 1.50; rye, $1.50; straw, $6.00 a ton. Selling Cotton seed meal, $58.00 a ton, $3.00 a cwt; tankage, $93.00 a ton, $4.75 a cwt; oil meal, $63.50 a ton, $3.25 a cwt.
FRUIT & VEGETABLES (Corrected Dally by Eggemeyer's)
SELLING PRICES
TOLEDO, O., May 31. Wheat Not quoted. Clover seed Prime cash, $18 25; Oct., $14.25. Alsike Prime cash, $14.50. Timothy Prime cash, $3.70; Sept, $4.20; Oct.. $3.17 1-2; Dec, $4.07 1-2; March. $4.15.
LIVE STOCK PRICES
INDIANAPOLIS, May 31. Hogs Receipts 8,000; steady. Cattle Receipts 1,800; steady. Calves Receipts 700; steady. Sheep Receipts 250; steady to lower. Steers Prime corn fed steers, 1.500 md up, $16.5017.25; good to choice steers, 1,300 and up, $16.2517.00; up, $13.7516.25;good to choice steers to medium steers, 1,150 to 1,200, J 1 5.50 16.00; good to choice steers. 600 to 1.000 lbs., $13.5014.25; fair to medium yearlings, $9.7512.00. Heifers and Cows Goou to choice heifers, $11.5014.50; common to fair heifers, $9.00 10.25; fair to medium cows, $9.5010.25; canners and cutters $7.00 9.00. Bulls and Calves Gord to prime export bulls. $11.50 g 12.00; good to choice butcher bulls, $11.00 1150; common to fair bulls, $9.0010.75; common to best veal calves, $9.50 $14.00; common to best heavy calves, $3.5011.50; stock calves 250 to 450 pounds, $7.50 10.50;good to choice lights, $16.10 16.15. Stnckers and Feeding Cattle Good to choice steers. 700 pounds and up. $11.00 12.50; common to fair steers, under 700 pounds, $10.0011.00; good to choice Eteers, under 700 pounds, $10.5012.00; common to fair steers, under 700 pounds, $9.00010.50; medium to good heifers, $8.50010.00; Medium to good feeding cows, $8.00 J'. 50; springers, $S.009.50. Hogs Best- heavies, $16.65 16.75; medium and mixed, $16 6516.75; good to choice lights, $16.75016.80; common to medium lights, $16.70 16.75; roughs and packers, $14.50 15.23; light pigs. $15.00 16.25; light pigs. $15.00016.75; bulk nf best hogs, $16.65016.75; best pigs, $16.90017.25. Sheep and Lambs Uuod to choice yearlings, $15.00018 00: common to fair yearlings. $12.5013.75; good to choice wool sheep, $14.00016.00; bucks, 100 pounds, $10.00011.00; good t-j choice breeding ewes, $14.00 10.00; common to medium spring lambs, $14013.75; good to choice wool lambs, $16.001S.00.
VEGETABLES Wax beans, 15 cents per pound; asparagus, 5c bunch; new cabbage, 5c lb.; green beans, 13c lb.; carrots, 3 to 5c lb.; spring carrots, 8c bunch; spring beets, 10c bunch; cauliflower 15025c head; cucumbers 510c; egi plants 15c; kohlrabi 10c bunch; leaf lettuce, 15c per pound; head lettuce, trimmed, 30c a pound; untrimmed, 20c a pound; leak, 10c bunch; mushroms, 75c per pound; onions, New Burmudas, 8c lb.; young onions, 5c bunch; 3 for 10c; oyster plant, 5 cents bunch; parsley, oc bunch; mangoes, 2 for 5c; radishes, 5c bunch; spinnach, 10c lb.; home grown tomatoes, 25c lb.; turnips, new, 8c lb.; water cress, 5c per bunch; artichokes, 20c each; celery. 8, 10 and 15c bunch; potatoes, old, $101.35 per bushel; rhubarb, 3 bunches, 10c; green peas, 10c pound; Telephone, 12&c pound; kahl, 10c lb.; new potatoes, 40 to 60c pk. FRUITS Calif, cherries, 60c lb.; watermelons $1 each; peaches, 15c lb.; sour cherries, 25c qt.; apples, 8 to 10c pound; grape fruit, 10 15c; lemons. 50 cents per doz.; bananas, 10c lb.; limes, 30c per doz.; oranges, 40c to 60c doz.; pineapples, 25c each; strawberries, 20 to 25c qt. MISCELLANEOUS Eggs, 33c per dozen; butter, creamery, 52c; country. 42c per pound. PRODUCE (Buying) Butter, 28c; eggs 27c; potatoes 75c; chickens 20c.
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' Do you know wheye there are any beds of Sphagnum Mess? If you do please report thi3 information to the lied Cross Society. Dressings made of this moss are bnlng used in every .hospital and dressing station serving the Allied Armies. 1 As far back as the Napoleonic vars moss was used for this purpose, but not until 1915 did any large demand for it arise. In 1916 it was I'ound that the supply of moss available in England was insufficient and an appeal was made to Canada. Canada answered that call as she has answered all others for help and supplies. Prof. Pcr?.er of McGill University, explored Uie bogs of eastern Nova Scotia in an endeavor to locate moss similar ,tc tho samples sent over from England. His hunt was rewarded by finding a grade of moss which the medical authorities pronounced "perfect" and the first
sphagnum moss dressings to be sent overseas were made from this moss in the fall of 1916 by the Junior Red Cross of Buysboro, .sova Scotia. To the late Harry James Smith, of New York, is due much credit for the progress of this work. At his own expense, he established a sphagnum organization at Aichat, N. S.. explored various localities on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts for moss fields; collected, prepared and donated to the Red Cros3 great quantities of this moss. When the American Red Cross formed a sphagnum department it was placed under his control. Mr. Smith was killed in an automobile - accident in British Columbia in March, while searching for moss for the Canadian Red Cross, and thus set the seal to a life of exceptional generosity and nobility. The work of the McGill University Women's Union in maintaining a sphagnum department since 1916,
has been of inestimable value. Not only have mos3 and dressings been prepared in large quantities, but experiments have been carried on to test the value of various Canadian mosses. The Union was organized during the first weeks of the war from among the families of the Governors and staff of the University, and has been active ever since in providing ''soldiers' comforts" for McGill graduates and students on active service. Some conception of the amount of work done by these women can be gleaned from the fact that McGill's quota numbers more than 2,200. The accompanying photographs show members of the Union working on moss in its various stages of preparation. Inquiries regarding this work may be addressed to Miss S. M. Bainbridge, Hon. Sec. Committee on Sphagnum Dressings, Canadian Red Cross, care McGill University, Montreal.
WAYNE FARMERS URGED TO PUT SILOS ON FARM
All of Bumper Crop Can Be Utilized by the Use of Silos.
PITTSBURGH, May 31 Hogs Receipts 4,500; lower; heavies $16,750 $16.85: heavy Yorkers $17 0 17.25; light Yorkers and pigs, $17.15017.25. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 1,300; steady; top sheep $14.00; top lambs, $17.00. Calves Receipts 500; steady; top, $15.00.
CINCINNATI, O.. May 31 HogsReceipts 7.100; steady. Cattle Receipts 1,600; Mow. Calves Market weak; $7014. Sheep Receipts 1,300; steady. Lambs Market steady; $12015 50.
CHICAGO. May - 31. Hoes Receipts, 15, 0C0; market weak; bulk of sales. $16.15016.50; lights, $16,250 16.60; mixed. $15.25016.55; heavy, $15.2501635; rough, $15.25015.60; pigs, $14.25016.85. Cattle Receipts, 3,000; market, firm; steers, $10.50017.75; stockers and feeders, $9.25 and $13.65; cows and heifers, $7.25014.90; calves, $8.00 14.75. Sheep Receipts, 10,000; market, weak;, sheep, $10.00015.35; springs, $14.250$2O.OO; lambs, $13.25017.75.
EAST BUFFALO. May 31. CattleReceipts 350; slow. Calves Receipts 1,700; steady: J 7.000 15.00. Hogs Receipts 4.800; alow; heavy $17.00017.15: mixed $17.150 17.25; Yorkers $17.25: light Yorkers $17,250 $17.50; pigs $17.50 0 17.75; roughs, $15.00015.25; stags $11.00012.00. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 4,000; steady and unchanged.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Butter Creamery whole milk extra 46c; centralized extra, 43c; do first, 41c; do seconds, 40c, fancy dairy, 34; packing stock No. 1, 28c, No. 2, 24c. Eggs Prirle frsts (loss off), 3.1c; firsts, 30c; ordinary firsts, 27 Vic; seconds, 27c; dude eggs, 31c. v Poultry Broilers under 2 lbs., 500 55c; fowls, 4 lbs. and over, 25c; roosters, 18c; culls, 10c; white ducks, 3 lbs. and over, 23c: colored do 30c; geese, choice full feather, 16c; do medium, 13c; guineas, $6 per dozen. Apples I-'ippins, $8:OO0$11.OO per brl.; Ben Davis, $4,500 $7.00; Ganos, $3.0007.00 per brl.; Winesaps, $6,500 $10.00. Beets Home-grown, $101.25 per bushel; Florida. $2.2502.50 per crate. Onions Yellow, $1.7502 per 100-lb sack; Texas crystal white, $1.750 $2; per crate; Spanish, $101.25 per crate. Potatoes Wisconsin, $1.4001.45 per 100-lb sack; Florida, $2.5004 per brl.
Tomatoes Floridj, $40$6.5O peri
crate. Sweet Potatoes Genuine Jersey seed, $2S2.25 per hamper; table stock, $3 $3.50.
JUNK (Prices paid by Sam Jaffe) No. 1 rubber boots and shoes, 7c per lb.; No. 2 rubber boots an:! shoes, 40 4,2C per lb.; automobile tires, 4c per lb.; inner tubes, 8016c per lb.; bicycle tires, 3c per lb.; buggy tires, 3V&04c per lb.; baled paper. 40c per hundred lbs.; country mixed rags, $2.30 per hundred lbs.; mixed iron, $1.00 per hundred lbs.; heavy brass copper from 13018c per lb.
PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, May 31. Butter market
Indianapolis Representative Sales H03S 2 195 $13.00 2 380 15.25 50 244 16.70 23 176 16.75 36 220 16.75 STEERS 2 643 $10.00 2 ....830 13.50 9 906 15.10 4 1167 16.35 HEIFERS 3 586 $10.00 5 610 12.00 9 854 13.00 3 890 14.00 COWS 5 750 $ 7.50 6 888 8.50 2 1030 10.00 1 1250 12.50 BULLS 1 816 $ 9.00 1 1350 10.00 1 1120 11.35 1 1440 12.00 CALVES i 6 318 $ 9.00 13 190 12.50 14 160 13.50 2 190 14.00 The salary of the president of Switzerland amounts to $2,200 a year, with an additional $3,000 for expenses.
" If you can't put a gun on your shoulder, put a silo on your farm." Those are the words being sent out now by the State Council of Defense, and they are to be emphasized to the farmers of Weyn county by County Agent J. C. Kline, at the silo meeting to be held in his office Saturday af
ternoon. Mr. Kline is very optimistic about the corn crop in the county, and feels that the one sure way of making positive that all of the expected big crop can be utilized is by the use of silos. According to the plans which have been made, it is hoped to increase the number of silos in the county by at least 144. To this end Saturday's meeting has been called. Will Make Survey. It is to be attended by all of the township leaders, who are already cooperating with the county agent. The plans call for a survey of the county, to ascertain the number of farmers at present ueing silos, and the number of non-users who could with added profit make use of one. Last year's big crop was lost to a great extent because of the inability of the farmers to take care ot it. Silos furnish the means to care for every last stalk of corn on the farm. Many of the dairymen in the county are now doing without one, when they might as well save money in feed, and produce better milk as well, by their use. The same applies to those of the farmers who are raising beef cattle, and to the sheep raisers. But most of all does the silo become of use to general farmers, those men who have a small dairy herd, and a few other farm animals. These are the men who can best profit by the use of the silo. Will Preach New Idea. After a proper survey of the county has been made, and those men located who are without these necessary farm buildings, it is planned to have some of the older silo users go to these men and preach the new idea. Following the arguments of the users will come the persuasive powers of the agents who are watching the movement closely. Mr. Kline said Friday that he fully expected that he would have no trouble in enlisting the aid of the present users of silos, and that he was confident of being able to raise Wayne County's quota of 144 silos. Many large fields of corn in the county are already awaiting the second cultivation, and the present outlook is for a bumper crop. Some of the planters are having some trouble with the grub worm and with aunts, but not to any great extent. Others, for various reasons are finding it necessary to replant fields which did not germinate properly. These farmers, and those who for some reason have not yet done their first planting, are experiencing some difficulty in obtaining the right kind of seed corn in any quantities. The best to be had just at present is from New Jersey and can be had in sacks of two bushels, by ordering through Mr. Kline. In his travels the county agent has
found the clover and alfalfa crops are about ready for cutting, and is anxious
that the alfalfa especially should be cut at the right time as delay means just so much reduction in the later crops. Time was when the time for cutting was judged by the appearance of the blossom, but since that is more or less uncertain, it is best to watch for a small shoot which appears at the crown of the plant. When this shoot is about an inch and a half or two inches in length, get ready to cut. Mr. Kline is also doing his utmost to increase the interest in the coming "Rooster week." It has been repeatedly pointed out that the rooster is an unnecessary evil during the summer, and his presence with the hens only reduces the length of time which the eggs may safely be kept fit for consumption. But it will do no good if only a part of the roosters of the flock are disposed of. All must either be sold, killed, or confined. With 2,313 farmers in the county raising poultry, it is estimated that there are at least 7,000 roosters. The value of the eggs which the disposal of these birds will save is close to $6,000.
JOIN NAVAL FLYING CORPS
John Russell Geyer. 1603 Main street and Edward Porter Cordell, 407 North Twentieth street, enlisited in the naval reserve flying corps as machinists mates, aviation, and left Friday for Indianapolis for final examination.
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RAILROAD STRIKES OPPOSED BY U. S.
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. May 31 Railroad shopmen of the United States were today notified through their union heads of the statement issued by Director General of railroads McAdoo last night reminding them that they are government employes in time cf war and that a strike or any cessation of work at the present would be a direct blow to the prosecution of the war. The statement issued in connection with the walkout a few days ago of several hundred machinists and shopmen at the Alexandria, Va., shops of the Southern railroad and threats of a general strike of union shopment next Monday unless further pay advances are granted, declares "the government cannot be coerced or intimidated by any of its employes." The shopmen are reminded by Director General McAdoo that a board on railroad wages and working conditions has been created which will hear all cases in which a group of employes feel justice has not been done. Referring to the Alexandria, Va., walkout the director general declared It was "the first time in the history of our government that any of its employes have attempted -i strike against their government."
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THE shortage of labor on the farms of America la serious. Never before in its history has the United States experienced so great a need for workers as now. We are face to face with tasks that are almost beyond calculation and which vlll tax our strength and resources. There is plenty of work for every man, and he who remains idlo when the country needs his services is no patriot. Every large city, town, and hamlet has its quota of habitual Idlers who are doing nothing to help America In this crisis of war. If efficient laws against loafing were enacted and enforced in every state, the labor shortage would be materially reduced and production greatly increased. Not only would the country be benefitted and the end of the war broujM nearer, but the Idlers, thus compelled to work, would be better for it. Several States Aroused. Several states already have taken steps to put the loafer to work. Maryland, West Virginia and New Jersey have passed laws making idleness n misdemeanor. Similar bills have been introduced In the legislatures of New York and South Dakota. Georgia and other 6tates are planning to take action. The enactment of New Jersey's anti-loafing law was followed" by a proclamation by Governor Edge calling upon all peace officers In the state to see that every Idle male resident be forced to work or be confined in jaiL No distinction was made between tramp and millionaire. A rounding up of loafers in New Jersey town was begun immediately, and in a single day 1,000 workless men applied for jobs at the government employment bureau in Newark. The New Jersey law makes it the duty of every able-bodied male citizen between the ages of IS and 50, "to be habitually and regularly engaged in some lawful, useful and recognized business, occupation, trade or employment until th6 termination of the war in which the United States is now engaged." - In his proclamation Governor Edge said : "The selective service principle should prevail as in making of our military forces. In this case we aro drafting for the industrial army. There are kinds of work too severe, in a physical sense, for the 'society idler,' who may, however, be competent to handle such tasks which would be impossible for slackers of the hobo type. Sound Judgment must be employed in our experiment to rid the human hive of its drones, and I call upon the Labor Department of the State to employ all of its available resources, including the Federal-State-Municipal Employ, ment bureaus, in providing machinery to obtain the kind of work suitable for special cases.-, Zlei w Co-Operation Is Necessary. ' "To put Into motion the machinery thus to be provided by the State Department of Labor will require the co-operative touch of law-enforcing officers all over the state. I therefore call the attention of sheriffs, mayors and heads of police departments in all municipalities to the necessity of maintaining sharp vigilance and a keen eye for those workless individuals whosa lack of ambition and fondness for Idleness constitute not merely a financl.il burden to every community, but also a genuine menace to the welfare of tho aation's manhood under arms and their safety on the battle front. "Towns of 10,000 population or over should have their police departments compile a list of all habitual idlers in the community that each may be warned of the penalty of $100 or three months in jail, or both." President Wilson's recent army draft order, which goes into effect July 1 ind will compell all able-bodied men between the ages of 21 and 30 years to engage in useful occupations or fight, will go far toward putting America apon a more efficient industrial basis. Idlers, regardless of social or financial standing, will not be able to evade the order, but there will remain many loafers, below the age of 21 and over the age of 30, yrho must be compelled :o work by various state laws.
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the American defense. Lively fighting also has occurred on the Luneville and Toul sectors. In aerial fighting northwest of Toul one Americac avaitor fell prisoner to the enemy. Two German machines were destroy ed and another sent down out of control. In northern Italy, there ha3 been nc Infantry activity of moment. The artillery duel there is less violent.
MANUFACTURERS HAVE CHANCE TO PURCHASE SHEET IRON
C. W. Ullman, secretary of the Commercial club has received information for manufacturers concerning places where planished and armco polished sheet iron may be purchased at less than the current selling price. The information may be obtained by application to the Commercial club.
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