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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-12
April Planting

MT. McVay has prepared an az ricultural and horticultural al endar for April applicable to Bir- mIngham and surrounding terri tory.
 Vegetable Garden.-First hat of month. Plant irish potatoes, Bed sweet potatoes for slips, SOW egg plant, repper and tomato TOT p.ants to sSl later. Plant freely or beeJs, carrots. cabbage, early corn, lcttace mustard. persnips. parsley, onions radish spinach. swIss chard. turnips and kngiIsh peas.
 second han or nonth.-Plan: sGuasues Set out early tomato, al sorts beans. cucumDers. .neioIs. unIa. pumpkins and l,ppcr eas planl and sweet po-
 rielu crops. First hat of f.clt.,.. SON burt oats. beeriless oat,-s csesers. grasses, carly cpfu. .iape, sptlus setches etc.
 Seconu na,t or month.-Plani cetIun, peaAt Is, veivet a:d soy heans, broom com. cnutas, sor- shuns miiiets. field corn. early COW peas and set out sweet po- talOeS.
 Orchard Spraying must be at tended to if :rult free of diseases and worms are expected. Gei all data and materials from your local seedsman Be -pre pal sd to fight the memorable march of myriads of injurious insectA seek ing tc devour every sort o. crop. Ferlilize all nursery stock in set ting oat, the extra labor aud ex- Lense will pay biz dividends.
 rlowel Garden.-Set out sum- mer and fall Towering bulbs and roots, such as gladiolus. tube roses, aahlias. caIadiums, and cannas. Roses may still De put out and all sorts of shrupbery. Lawn grass may be planted.
 Last half of month.-Practical- ly all flower seed may now be planted in the open ground, par ticuiariy the hardy annuas, such as alyssum, asters. balsoms, cai- endula, calliopsis, cocks comb. centaurea cosmos. California pop py. enphorbia, four o'clock. for get-me- mot, geranium. heliotrope. annual hollyhocks. lantana. lark spEN. nasturtiums, pansies, petu- niss phlox, peoples. portulaca. snap dragon. salvia sunflower sweet peas, verbena. vinca and zinnia. In addition to these many others including climbers. hardy perennials. etc., may be safely planted.
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PORT MOVEMENT

New Orleans: Middling, 1650c; re- celpts. 4,406; exports, 1,767; sales 537; stock, 263,56S.
 Galveston Middling, 17.30c; re- ceipts, 12,394; exports, 20.2s5; sales 797: stock, 2Se,S00.
 Mobile Middling, 16.ssc; receipts 1SS; exports. 1886; sales, 19; stock 5.2S4.
 Savannah; Middling, lie; receipts 4.115 sales 45S; stock, 135.s41.
 Charleston; Receipts. 1,194; stock 7S,97s.
 Wilmington: Middlng. 17c; re- ceipts, 261; stock, 31,646.
 Texas City: Stock, 7,51s. Norfolk: Middling, 17c; receipts 1.466; sales. 464; stock. 116,04. Baltimore: Stock. 2,244. Boston,: Middling, 17.s0c; receipts 112: stock. 11.600. Philadelphia: Stock, 6.161. New York; Middling. 17-90c; re- ceipts. SO; exports. S,o25; stock 7s.- 55s.
 Minor ports: Receipts, 1S.247; ex- ports, 1s.247; stock, 5,7S2.
 Total today: Receipts. 43.04s; ex- ports. 51170; stock, 1.027,2S1. Total for week Receipts 69,317i exports, 76,430.
 Total for season: Receipts. 4.99s,- j075; exports, 4,41s,9S4.
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LARGE TURNOVERS
 REGISTERED ON THE .l STOCK EXCHANGE
Heavy Inflow of Funds From Interior Banks Accounted ! For the Related Money
 Rates
By Associated Press

New York, April 11.-Quoted values in the stock market regis tered additional substantial gains to- day in another large turnover, sales amounting to 100000 shares. The irregular tone of tho list in tho first and final hours was ascribed to profit-taking. based on tho more acute coal strike situation.
 The same groups of stocks which have given greatest momentum to the more or less steady advance of the past few weeks-steels, motors and their specialties. oils and utili- ties-again were conspicuous in the days operations st extreme gains of l to points.
 New high records of the year or Q considerably longer period com prehended Studebaker and several affiliated issues, as we'll as Mexi- can petro1uom and many unclassi- fled specislties, coppers. tobaccos and textiles.
 United statss steel failed to equal its maximum of the previous day, but was in fair demand, probably as a result of the very favorable March
  and buying of metals was stimulated by further large exports of copper.
 As a group, rails were sluggish. but exceptions were made by Rock Island, presumably in connection with that roads good showing in the preliminary report for last year. Chi cago Great Western preferred also displayed unusual strength, but coal CTS eased on the heavy tone of Read ing,
 Fractional losses in Bethlehem. Cruefble and Gulf States Steels and Baldwin Locomotive, at the close, were neutralized by net gains of l to points in Studebaker, Mexican Petroleum, Royal Dutch, Pacific oil, Utah, American Smelling. Computing Tabulating and Stromberg Carbu- retor.
 Heavy inflow of funds from inte- rior banks accounted for relaxed money rates, call loans easing from A to per cent in the last half of the session. Time money rates were unaltered but in more liberal supply for short dates. Brokers reported only n moderate amount of trading in foreign exchange. British and the leading continnetal rates were main ly lower, but Dutch and German bliis displayed pronounced strength ana inc Greek rate was not unfavorably influenced by reports which con firmed recent advices of disturbing economic conditions in that country.
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ward course under stimulus of the further demand for rails. Over two score issues of that character, includ- ing several of the leading systems of the country made new maximums for the year.
 Liberty issues were uncertain. clos ing at mixed changes. but not before the 3i2s. second As and four.h 4ias ascended to new records. Strength of exchange on Prague added to the re- cent gain in Czcho Slovakian Ss and improvement was shown by Mexican governments and Chinese railway 5s. Total sales (par value) s17.039.O00.
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COTToNsEED OIL

New York, April l1.-Cottonseed oil lacked independent feature. prices being lower with lard and grain. Trading was light and professional. Trading deliveries closed 3 to s points net lower. Sales, 6,60o barrels. Prime crude. 1000, nominal; prime summer yellow spot. nominal; May, 1l.59c: July, 11.50c: September, 11.50c, all bid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-12
SUGAR MARKET Nv Asaociated Press

New York. April 11.-The raw hugar market was firmer and prices were higher. Spot quotations were nominal, while late April and May shipment Cubas were up to 21ec, cost and freight, equal to 4.1ic for cen trifugal. There were sales early of 10000 bags of Cubas for first half May shipment at 7-1sc, cost and freight, followed later by 10000 bags May shipment and about 25,oo0 bags for late April at 2hc, cost and freight.
 The raw sugar futures market was firmer on renewed buying for both trade and outside account, prompted by the firmness ip the spot market Closing prices were to ' points net higher. May, 2,55c; July, 2.75c; September. z.s2c; December. 2.s7c.
 The market for refined was steady but business was light and prices un- changed at 5.25c to 5.50c for fine granulated.
 There was no transactions In re- fined futures. Closing: May, 6.sSei July, s.1oc; September, 6.25c.
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INTERIOR MOVEMENT

Houston: Middling, 17.15c; re- ceipts, s.2ss; shipments. 15.s07; sales 1,716; stock, 205.232.
 Memphis: Middling, l7c; receipts 72; shipments. 1.429; sales. 75O; stock 16S653.
 Augusta; Middling, 16.75c; receipts 1884; shipments, 1,616; sales, 93 stock. 112.o5e.
 St. Louis: Middling. 17c; receipts 1.29S; shipments. 1,237: stock, 26,S9e
 Atlanta: Middling. 16.75c.
 Little Rock; Middling. 16.75c; re. ceipts, 210; shipments, 11S; sales, 32 stock, 55,5Ss.
 Dallas: Middling, 1s.7oc; sales. l.. s17.
 Montgomery: Middling, 1sc; sales 115.
 Total today: Receipts, 12,ss2 stock. 56S,37s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-12
FIND YOURSELF CAMPAIGN

Selma. April 11.-(Special.)-C. F. Rigler. state boys work secretary of the Y. M. c. A. in Atlanta, arrived fin Selma Monday to assist the com mittees in charge of the Boys Find Yourself campaign. which Is now be- ing carried on in Selma by the local Y. Rigler has long been identified in boys work and has a thorough understanding of their needs and with his aid. it was thought that the campaign will be paid huge nuccess- c. B. Loomis, regional in- tcrnational boys work secretary. also of Atlanta, will arrive in Selma next week to aid in the campaign.
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WHEAT DECLINED ONFORE|GNNE NEWS
 FROM LIVERPOOL
Oats and Corn Were on a See saw, While the Provisions List Was Unchanged to
 a Setback
By Associated Press

Chicago, April 11.-Wheat declined in price today largely as result of downward tendency of Liverpool quotations and weakness of foreign exchange. The close was unsettled at %c to 2c net lower, with May. s1.31% to $1.31% and July, st.2o 10 1.201s Corn finished unchanged Q A c off. Oats unchanged, Is down, and provisions unchanged to a sst- back of 200.
 It had been expected by many wheat traders that in view of yes terday's advance in values on this side of the Atlantic the Liverpool market this morning would show an upturn. Disappointment in this re- spect was emphasized particularly by decline in sterling and by advices of disturbed financial conditions in Greece. Besides export demand was slow. and the view was pressed that all known bullish factors had been fully discounted for the present.
 Better milling demand at St. LOUIS, hdnsdS Nity anu Otidha heipcu somewhat at one stage to rally the wheat market here, but toward the end of the day a renewal of weak ness became evident, owing more or less to gossip that two Minneapolis mills were offering to sell in Chicago hard winter wheat that had been purchased in the southwest. Selling of 100. 900 bushels here to go to store was also a late depressing factor, especially as to the May delivery. unfavorable crop reports from parts of Kansas were virtually ignored. Persistent rainy weather made the market for corn and oats relatively steady. Business, however, lacked volume.
 Provisions as a rule were lower in line with hogs and on account vf increasing stocks of lard.
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Notice of Redemption to Holders of Victory Notes and Others Concerned.

Notice Is Hereby Given As FoIlowss
 1-Call for Redemption of 3Z Per Cent
 Victory Notes. All of the E per cent series of United
 States of America Convertible Gold
 Notes of 1922-1923. otherwise known as K per cent Victory Notes. are
 hereby called for redemption of June 15. 1922. pursuant to the provision for redemption contained in the notes and No. 13s. dated April 21. 1919, und sr which the notes were originally issued. Interest on all Victory Notes of the 3 E
 per cent serles will cease on said re- demption date. June Is, 1922.
 2-Suspension and Termination of Vie
 tory Note Conversion Privilege.
 In view of the call for the redemption of all 3% per cent Victory Notes on June IS. 1922. and pursuant to the pro- visions of said Treasury Department
 Circular No. 13S, the privilege of con version of Victory Notes of either series into Victory Notes of the other series is hereby suspended from February g, 1922. to June IS. 1922. both inclusive, and on June IS, 1922. will terminate.
 Victory Notes accordingly cease to be interconvertible. effective February 9,
 1922. and on and after that date no conversion of the notes may be made. S-Detailed information as to the pre-
 sentation and surrender of 3 Y per cent Victory Notes for redemption is given in Treasury Department Circular No. which are available at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Banks. A. w. MELLON,
 Secretary of the Trsasury.
 February 9, is2z-
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RICE MARKET

Dy A88Oc1hteU 1T ftbe '
 New Orleans. April 11.-Rough rice strong; no sales; receipts 6,390 sacks millers receipts same.
 Clean rice strong; sales reported 300 pockets Honduras at 1 Ac; 3,S0a pockets Blue Rose at, 2h @4%c; re- ceipts 3.165 pockets. Bran and Polish unchanged.
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Large Offering of
 New Bonds in Sight
Bv A.soclated Pres.

New York, April n. Nsgotia- tions for the carly offering of s15.- 100000. thirty year five percent Providence of Ontario loan by an American banking syndicate was the most noteworthy development in to- days bond market.
 The general list continued in some what irregular manner its recent up
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.

Members New York Stock Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, New York Pro- duce Exchange. Associated Members Liverpool Cotton Association Orders so- licited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery. Special attention and liberal terms given for consignment of spot cotton for de- livery.
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MONEY MARKET
NaW '

New York, March 11.-Call money easier; high Az per cent; low per cent; ruling rate Az per cent; clos ing bid 4 per cent; offered at A. per cent; last loan 4 per cent; call loans against acceptances 4 per cent. Time loans steady; 50 days, 90 days, six months A per cent; prime mercan- tile paper 4h@% per cent.
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LIVERPOOL COTTON Rv Associated Press

Liverpool. April 11.-Cotton, spot moderate business; prices steady; good middling 1O.76d; fully middling 10.4Gd; middling 10.S1d; low middling s.61d; good ordinary S.76d; ordinary s.26d. Sales 10000 bales including HOO American; receipts 1S,000 bales including 12.000 American. Futures closed steady. April 10.10d; May 10.Osd July 10.06d october 9.s5d; January 9.S5d; March 9.S1d.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

New York, April 11.-Foreign ex- change easy. Great Britain. demand 5.40% cables Al IS; 60 day bills on banks 5.37N France. demand~9.20 F cables 9.21. Italy, demand 5.36; ca bles 5.S6is. Belgium demand S.521a cables S.53. Germany. demand .35.a4
 cables .S5a. Holl t and demand 37.76; cables .35ss. Holland demand 1S.47; Sweden demand 26.10. Denmark de- mand 45o. Poland demand 02h. Spain demand 15.53; Greece demand 450. Po- land demand 42h Czchoslovakia de- mand 2.03 h; Argentine demand 35.S7
 Brazil demand 1860. Montreal 97%
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POTATOES
By Associated Pres.

Chicago. April 11.-Potatoes dull; Minnesota round white, graded $1.40 @$1.50; Idaho sacked russets $1.700 S1.S0; New stock: Market steady; Florida doubleheaded barrels Spsuld- ing rose No. ss.o0@ss.5o; No. 2. $7.5o.
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Date For Closing
By Associated Press

NeW hOfk, ApriI IIs-The board of managers of the New York Cotton Exchange today de- cfded to close the exchange on April 22 instead of April 20, to facilitate the movement of the exchange equipment to tempo rary quarters at 9O-96 Wall street.
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grown than any other vegetable, and yet failures or partial failures are to be encounterd on every hand, due largely to carelessness. neglect ana a proper appreciation of the real value of a well grown plant.
 The question of variety, that su concerns the majority Is after all of little importance, compared t@ proper management to secure maximum re- suits. The cause of many failures is the practice of buying the tender, soft. spindling plants found on sale, most of which have been forced Tn hot houses, possess an inadequate root system to maintain the plant when reset causing weak develop ment and a general puny condition, that lays the plant open to attacks of a great number of root diseases and different forms of blight. The aver age plant customer lcoks only at the pretty green tops or foliage and often spurns field grown plant with Il fine root system. because the foliage may not look so fresh. Those who grow their own plants are the ones who make the greatest success.
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NAVAL STORES

Savannah, Ga, April 11-Turpen- tine firm 7s15; sales H. shipments 1S2; shipments 127; stock s62
 075; shipments 1.206; stock 5s.6Is Quote R. D. E. F. s5.O5@4.10: G. H. L s4.07i1 c 4.45; K. s4.121s OPS: M s5.40&5.5o; N. s4.s0@510; w. E s5.400 O 5.6o; W. W. s5.70a5S0.
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METAL MARKET

electrolytic. spot and nearby I2Tc.
 later I2M @1Sc. Tin easier; spot and
 nearby s30.50; futures s30.62. Iron firm; No. l Northern s21.00@22.00: No. Northern $20.00@ 21.00; No. ? Southern s16.00@s16.50. Lead steady; spot $500 @s5.1o. Zinc steady; East St.. Louis, spot $4.s5@s5.oo Anthony spot $4.75.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-12
How Does Your Garden Grow?
By GEORGE B. M'VAY, SIR.

Agerad gardening McVay behind
 trial gardener and Birmingham.
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Chicago. April 11.-Butter higher
SPOT COFFEE

By AssOctated Fres6 New York, April 11.--Coffee Rio No !!1s AzZ. :. .cshrlutaoinshrdlu '. 10s.
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EAST ST. LOUIS LIVE STOCK
 IR AusacIaiad Rrasa

East St. Louis. April 11.-Cattle: Re- ceipts $500; beef steers 15c to 25c lover; top steers ss.25 for 1886 pounders: light yearlings and beef cows steady to 15c lower.
 Bulk yearlings ...........$ 7.5o9 500 Cows ................. 4.760 5.75 Bulk bolognas ............. 4.250 4.50
 Hogs; Receipts 12,0oo; market opened 10c lower; later market active; part of early decline regained.
 Top fiu.to Bulk 160 to 23o-lb. averages. 10.7b91o.s0 Smooth sows largely ........ 800
 sheep: Receipts, 1.6oo; market steady. Good heavy weights clipped
 lambs ...................s .sl3.5o Choice native spring lambs. 22.00 aeoS aeaxy hsnsy MOHi swss weight ..... . sso sSo
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.waterme,ons i'm Alabama

How many of us know that for the past two or three seasons the largest and finest melons that reach the Birmingham market are Alabama grown. Few of us realize the enor- nous development of the melon growing industry in Alabama. The greatest development has been in the southern part of the state, and it is to be noted that Geneva county has pledged this year $500 acres to this one crop. The Alabama Farm Blu reau Watermelon association has thoroughly organized a number of counties, with many cooperative To- calls, and the business has taken on a permanent aspect It is the set purpose to so coordinate the devel- opment of the industry as to make Alabama grown melons potential factor in every available market of the United States. The organization has already pledges of 10000 acres for this seasons crop. to be handled by them under a sane and profitable plan of distribution. Other sections are sure to become interested, to the end that Alabama raised watermelons will become known and appreciated wherever the demand may exist.
 Sudan Grass
 This splendid annual hay and for- age plant was introduced into the United States about 1910 by the ag- ricultural department of Washing ton, D. c. It is found growing wild in large areas of both Africa and In dia. and particularly in the Sudan, from whence it takes its name. IL has proven a most valuable plant for the United States.
 It is very much like our native Johnson grass in every respect. ex- cept it is strictly an annual, repro duces from seed only. and conse- quently not the pest that Johnson grass is. The plant grows much faster and much larger than John son grass. but when grown thickly and cut at the proper time. the hay is just as good and cures even bet ter. Sudan makes a wonderful root system. and is being largely used for sowing on terraces, embankments and other places as soil binder. 1t is sown broadcast or may be culti- vated in drills. bears repeated cut tings and when grown for seed. the yield is enormous.
 The Tomato
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CASH GRAIN

Chicago, April 11.--wheat No red s125ia; No. hard SIPS; No. 5 dark northern S1.40. Corn No. mixed 5s1ac; No. yellow 59@59&c. Oats No. white 39A O 40c; No. white 36 a ssc. Rye No. 3. sSac. Barley 62c. Timothy seed s5.40@6.00. Glover seed $15@22. Pork nominal. Lard Sl0S0; ribs S1IT5Q12.75.
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London. April 11.-Bar silver 331zd d per ounce. Money 2iz per cent Dis count rates. short bills and three months bills 2% @2 1916 per cent.
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spot AIS bales: to arrive 119. Low middling 15.25c; middling 1650c; good middling 17.50c. Receipts 4,406; stock 263.56S.
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Market Bulletins
 From Here and There
By Associated Press

Chicago, April 1.-The Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Railway com- pany in its annual report for the year ending December 31, 1921, made pulp lie today, showed a balance of income available for dividends of $5,7S0,- 259.22 of which s3,5e7 .eo5 was applied for the payment of full dividends on the preferred stock.
 Washington, April, 11.-CIosing of the Bourse and the National Bank of Greece, was reported today in cable dispatches to the commerce depart ment.
 Harrison, Ark. April 1.-The Mis- xouri and North Arkansas Railroad was sold at receivers sale yesterday to the Missouri and North Arkansas Railway Company, reorganized cor poratiOn composed of holders of the receivership certificates, for $3,O0J.- OOO, the minimum purchase price permitted under the federal court Or- der directing the sale. J. C. Murray. receiver and general manager, said ], nm effort would be made to have the road in operation by May 15. Washington. April 11.-Petitions were filed with the Interstate Com merce Commission today by the Wes- tern Union Telegraph Company ask | ing adjudication of it's own property rights and separate consideration for l it in commission proceedings for | valuation of four railroads, all of minor importance except the Florida East Coast Railway.
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CHICAGO GRAIN By Associated Press
PRODUCE MARKET Ry AssoclateC Press

New York, April 11.-Butter strong; creamery extras, 37c; creamery firsts, 34h @3611c. Eggs steady. Cheese steady.
 Chicago. April 11.-Butter higher; creamery extras, 35c: firsts. 31h@ 34c; standards 3411c. Eggs higher. firsts. 2sNc; ordinary firsts. 21t F Q 22c. Poultry alive lower. fowls. 25c; springs soc; roosters, 1sc.
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The Tomato

The tomato is now more greatly appreciated and more universally
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BAR SILVER
LONDON MONEY

New York, April 11.-Foreign bar silver 65Mc: Mexican dollars 50Nc.
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New York. April 11.-Spot cotton quiet; middling 17.90c.
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St. Louis, April 11.--Wheat No 5 red s1.sS; No. 3 hard s1.s0; May SIPS; July s1.16B. Corn No. ?, white 5Shc;
 May 5SA Ac; July 62c. Oats No. white 36 1z @37c; May STA; July 40hc.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK

mostly lV.VV lVou
 Sheeps Receipts 5000; mostly steady; some light shorn lambs for Easter trade
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NEW YORK COTTON Rv vAesoctated PrNga

New York. April lI.-The cotton mar