River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-05-28
EGGS FROM CHINA

0hs may un.
der the Democratic tariff tariff law
Cn1nese are shipping eggs into this
country to compete with the Ameri-
can farmer, great interest has been
manifested in the activity among
Chinese egg shippers.
The egg business in China has
taken on such activity under the
Democratic tariff law that United
States consuls are making reports
on 1t to the United States govern
ment- Albert w. Pontius, American
consul at Marking. reports officially
that a big egg factory at Marking
is about to be completed SO as to
begin operations this year. He
says that Chinese eggs are either
sold in open market or collected by
interior agents and delivered to the
factory Or to the exporter.
The important egg producing dis
trict of China, he reports, comprises
the Yellow River and the Yanqtze
River provinces, and that the season
of greatest production is from Feb
ruary to May. He says there is a
local dessicated egg factory at Nan
king which purchases eggs much
below the market price. He says
this factory paid from eight to ten
cents a dozen last October.
For local shipping, Mr.. Pontius
reports that eggs are packed in
bamboo crates with saw-dust or
straw. He says they are canned at
Marking and Hankow by a foreign
corporation and shipped TO Europe.
He says he is informed that all
grades of eggs and all kinds of do
INVESTIGATED fowls are used for this
purpose. Refrigeration service, he
says, can be obtained from China
to the United States. The Hankow
factory mentioned above keeps in
operation through the year by
handling game, poultry, feathers,
beans and skins.
The American Consul reports
that workmen in these egg factories
receive about ten cents a day, thus
making it clear how the Chinese
are able to ship eggs to America
and compete with American farmers.
Washington, May % .-Anticipated
spring business in steel construc-
ton has fallen far below expecta-
tions. Reports from the steel dis
tricts which supply building.materi-
al show a great falling off in mill
operations.
Building operations are usually a
good thermometer of good or bad
times. The demand for iron and
steel for buildings would seem to
be growing worse and worse. The
whole trend of the iron and steel
industry is downward. 1t is report
ed to be operating at about sixty
five per cent. of it's capacity.
In the Pittsburg district, each
weeks record in iron and steel
seems worse than the week before.
Reports to the New York Sun show
that at the United States Steel Cor
poration mills, at Farrell, Pa, the
March business booked fell far be-
low expectations and that conse-
quently prices are not as firm as
they were in the first few months of
the year. The same report say
that the curtailment of operations
in certain departments of the steel
industry at Farrell, tends to con-
firm the assertion that current buy.
ing of steel is running fifty per
cent lighter than a month ago."
A recent report from John A. Pen
ton, of Cleveland, secretary of the
American Pig Iron Association,
says that foreign manufacturers,
operating under a lower cost of pro-
duction, r shipping large quanti-
ties of pig iron into the United
States, while the industry here is
being carried on at a heavy loss.
The wages of thousands of employ
ees in the pig iron industry have
been reduced, the report says, or
will have to be to meet the situation.
within the past few months the
tariff changes have been overlooked
by the country in general, but their
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