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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19

suffer in consequence. Recent rains
have improved the situation where
crops are in the ground or may yet
be planted, but the storage of moisture
is small. There is water enough for
irrigation purposes. The damage to
citrus fruits by frost is proving less
than anticipated, and prices are very
good. The First National Bank of
Los Angeles says that naval oranges
averaged 1881 per box for the week
ended March 81, compared with $l.o3
for the corresponding week of last
year. Shipments in the crop year to
March % aggregated 1872 cars,
against 1851 cars in like period last
year. The outlook for all fruit crops
is good, and the holdover of sup
plies will be,small.
Live Stock
Hogs are down over 81 per hundred
weight from the top price in March,
but there is profit in feeding corn
to hogs at present prices for both.
A. E. de RICHES, of Denver, in his
live stock market letter, gives the
following figures, and observations
pertinent to the cattle industry:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19
New York Produce Market

New York, May IL.
FLOUR-Barely steady; spring pa
tents, soft winter strafghts and hard
winter straights S.50@9.00.
WHEAT-Spot irregular; No. do.
dark northern spring I New York
lake and rail 1872; No 2 hard winter
( b lake and rail 1881; Mo- mixed
durum do. ITO; No. I Manitoba +
track New York all rail 1881; No. :
mixed do. 1924.
OATS-Spot easy; No. white SIS.
PORK-Quiet: mess $500; family
35.50@3750
.LARD-Easy: middle west 5000
1880.
BUTTER-Steady: receipts s2s5;
creamery higher than extras 44}@45;
do. extras. 90 score, A.; do. flrsts. IS to
81 score, 42@43A; packing stock cur
rent make No. as.
EGGS-Steady: receipts 24,256; fresh
gathered extra firsts 33@331; do. storx
age packed 349S44; fresh gathered
firsts S2@33h; do. storage packed 31a
@32: nearby hennery whites closely
selected extras 5000; nearby and
nearby western hennery browns ex-
tras 37@3S.
POTATOES-Barely steady: New
York per $50 pounds 2.25: Maine do.
2.25 @2.65: Florida per barrel 5000
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19

full in regard to whether the amount of
wheat available in Chicago would be
sufficient to allow current contracts to
be filed this month except under Sc
we're difficulty. New crop months were
Influenced by the action of May, and
there was also much buying on account
of unfavorable crop reports from Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Kansas. as we'll
as on Canadian advices about damage
by frost.
After Chicago wheat prices. however,
had reached the highest level seen here
in many weeks, news began to arrive
telling of liberal quantities of wheat
being bought to be forwarded promptly
to Chicago. Announcement that the
United States visible supply statement
showed rate of decrease out of line
with hopes concerning export demand
led also to a broadening of pressure to
sell, then downturns. in price ensued
and for the remainder of the day con-
tinued to be the rule.
Indications of warmer weather eased
down the corn market. Oats followed
corn.
Sympathizing with hog values. the
provision market averaged higher.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19

the markets were met by the policy
of withdrawing offerings from The
sales, but at the Australian sales last
week this policy was changed, ant
offerings increased. The result was
a substantial drop. This experience
is something for, the advocates OF
price-regulation and market-control to
study. There is an end sooner or
later to the policy of WITHHOLDING
supplies from market. The Austria
liam wool-producers with another
crop coming on, are impressed with
the necessity of getting rid of the
old crop.
Dairy Products
The heavy stocks of storage butter
which depressed the markets last Fall
and in the early Winter disappeared
rapidly in later months, particularly in
March, and prices improved accord
ingly. They are now about AZ cents
per pound, New York against 81 cents
one year ago. Egg prices, on fresh
gathered flrsts, New York, are 29H
against 241z last year.
/ Butter producers are agitated by
apprehensions of increased supplies
and are making a plea to the Tariff
Commission for an increase in the
customs duty from s to II cents per
pound. The chief competitor at
present is Denmark, a country with
total cultivated land area of 10,625, 900
acres, which compares with 22,148,223
acres in farms in Wisconsin. It
seems almost humiliating to take
refuge from Denmark behind tariff
barriers, for as to soil. climate and
feed supplies the Danish butter-makers
certainly are at disadvantage in
with the butter makers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19
were represented. Supper was served

were represented. Supper was served
after the business meeting.
The annual meeting of the trustees
of Monmouth Academy was held at
the Academy rooms, Wednesday,
May 10. Those present were c. s.
Stetson, Greene; c. L. Andrews, Au-
gusta; Rev. c.. E. Owen, Watervills;
j. H. McIlroy. Lewiston; Harry
Cochrane, A. j. Chick and II. S. Bent,
Monmouth; Judge A. NJ. Spear, a
member of the board, was unable to
be present. The following officers
were elected: President, c. L. Stet-
son; vice-pres., ]. H. McIlroy; Sec,
Harry Cochrane; Treas, Charles
Andrews.
Dinner was served at noon by
members of the local w. C. t. U. at
the Methodist chapel to the trustees
and members of the Monmouth
school board, Supt. Maxcy Kendrick,
Mrs. Nellie Ambrose and Mrs. May
Folsom.
The Good Times club held its last
meeting for the season with Mrs.
Julia d. Pike at her home on Main
street. Mrs. Hannah Lunn and Mrs.
Bertha Prescott acted as substitutes.
Mrs. Pike received the first prize for
the highest score for the year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19
Boston Produce Market

Boston, May IS.
BEEF-Choice whole cattle 16@161.
BUTTER-Extras 1904; firsts AZ
@43.
CHEESE-Fresh choice 231.
CORN-No. 9 yellow 1856 @136.
EGGS-Nearby hennery brown ex-
tras 40@403; white and mixed extras
3S@391; western extras 34a@35a.
FLOUR-Spring patents, 196-lb.
sacks, special short 1025@10.40;
standard 8.S5@10.25.
IAY-No. 2 timothy 22@24.
Handspring 21@26.
OATS-Forty pounds 63@64.
PORK-Medium backs 37@43
POTATOES-Green Mountains 125
@1.S0 per 100 pounds: new southern
No. / 4.00@7.00 per barrel.
SUGAR-American Sugar Refinery
quotes $40 cents in 100-barrel lots less
Q per cent. for cash.
VEAL-9M22
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Official figures for production IN
IVA are not available, but the
amount is estimated at about 2.OO0.-
100000 pounds.
These figures indicate that little eff
tect upon the price of butter could be
expected from even a total exclusion
OF imports. The increase of abort
soo,0OO,0O0 pounds in domestic pro-
duction since 1920 obviously has been
much more influential upon price than
the imports of 1906, 5000 pounds,
which were below the imports ct
1920. The very fact that imports
were excluded might easily stimulate
domestic production to the extent of
l9,O0O,OOe pounds, which would off,
set the entire effect of exclusion.
Some of the butter producers of the
United States no doubt are making
money, even though the calculations
based on averages show the contrary,
tor they are not all inferior to the
butter-nalsers of o;1er countries. Il
cannot be doubted that the best pro-
lection to the individual producer ID
the adoption of the methods which
enable his competitors, either at home
or abroad, to undersell him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19

of this country. The fact, indeed, is,
that the value of cow-feed imported
into Denmark from the United States
usually exceeds that of imports of
butter from Denmark into the United
States. When the trade relations be-
tween the two countries are consid-
cred in their entirety the situation af-
lords still less excuse for hostile ac-
ton on our part, as in 1924 exports
from this country to Denmark
amounted to about $434l3,028, while
imports into this country from Dem
mark amounted to $6,118,264. On the
whole, they seem to be doing quite as
much for us as we are doing for them.
The Tariff Commission has been
investigating the cost of producing
butter in Denmark and finds it to be
considerably less than in the United
States, mainly because of a higher
average production of butter-fat per
cow, although this obviously is con-
dition as to which there is great var
iation in the United States, and is
ulldcc- the control ~ the. individual
IaiTner.
The average cost of producing but
ter-fat in the United States, as shown
in the preliminary report of the Com
mission is OILS cents per pound, al
though the same report shows that
these figures are above the average
price of 90 score creamery butter on
the New York market in any year on
record, which would seem to show
that butter has been constantly pro-
duced at loss, although the produc-
ton was constantly increasing.
The advocates of higher duty
express more apprehension as TO pos
sible competition from Argentina,
New Zealand Australia, Canada and
Siberia than from Denmark, inasmuch
as production in the latter country
is not likely to increase greatly. A
newspaper report of the hearings con-
tains the following paragraph:
Theodore Macklin, professor in
the University of Wisconsin, who
spent three months last year in New
Zealand, studying dairying methods,
declared his Investigations had con-
WINGED him that butter producers in
that country are far ahead of
Americans in the use of modern
producing and business methods,
and for that reason they can make
butter at lower cost than is now
possible in this country.
Neither New Zealand, Australia nor
Canada are countries of 1ow-pad
labor.
The production of butter in the
United States in the years 1o20-23
and imports for the years 1o20-24, as
given by the Tariff Commission, have
been as follows:
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Is; South Carolina per barrel 500

e;75; South Carolina per barrel 500
ABBAGES-Weaker; South Caroli-
ma per 1l-bushel hamper 75c@1.25; Vir-
ginia per crate 1.75@250.
The raw sugar market was unset
tied. Cuban sugar was unchanged at
4.33, while Porto Rican declined to
4..S0. The only sales reported were
$4,000 bags of Porto Rican, due the
latter part of this month and early
June, at 4.30.
Raw sugar futures were generally
easier under trade and commission
house LIQUIDATION inspired by the in
creased offerings in the spot market
and private advices indicating that the
final Cuban yield would total 100000
tons. Final prices were one to six
points net lower May 2.61, July 2.70,
September 2.s2, December 2.s3.
only moderate business was report
ed in refined sugar at unchanged
prices, which ranged from 500 to $40
for fine graduated
Refined futures were nominal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19
Agricultural Conditions

Reports from the agricultural dis.
tricts have told of soil in good con.
dition for planting and probably an in.
creased acreage in crops. Rainfall
has been generally light, although
sufficient for immediate needs. In the
latter part of April good rains have
fallen over the Southwest which have
greatly improved the prospects. In
the Northwest conditions are very
favorable. This is particularly true
of Canada, the storage of moisture in
the western provinces raising hopes OF
a bumper crop.
The governments report of the
condition of Winter wheat on April
1st confirmed the private reports that
it had suffered severely from freezing
and drought. The estimates is for
H4,000,000 bushels, against 100000
600 last year. Clement, Curtis & Co.
estimate an abandonment of 20 per
cent, this acreage for the most part
going to oats and corn, although in
the Pacific Northwest about 100000
aeres will be seeded to Spring wheat.
Although the acreage in Spring wheat
is estimated at IA per cent above last
year, it is probable that the total wheat
crop of this country will be materi-
ally below that of last year.
On the other hand the Canadian
acreage will be larger and the condi-
ton as to moisture is good. The Euro
pean acreage of wheat and rye will
be slightly above that of last year.
Wheat prices have been very TN
steady, since the big slump, the bulls
apparently having lost either their
money or their courage. Far the AZ
weeks ended April q the combined
exports of wheat from Canada and
the United States, including -four,
were 34o,28f, SCI bushels, as against
315,677,164 in the corresponding
weeks of the previous crop year. The
average amount exported per week
over the AZ weeks has been about
100000, and for the three weeks
ended April q an average of $4,000
bushels per week. The theory of the
believers in 81 wheat was that along
about this time shipments from Aus
tralia and Argentina would decline
and demands on the United States and
Canada would increase, but exports
from Australia and Argentina are still
at good rate, and have not been in
creasing from the United States and
Canada. The total visible supply in
United States and Canada on April
Is was 122,000,000 bushels. The dis
appearance from March LIST to April
10 was 100000 bushels. Ali of
Europe, including Russia, is import
ing grain, and probably on a hand to
mouth basis, although the British Wis
ible is close to l00,000,000 bushels.
The markets now seem to be adjust
ing themselves to the conditions which
will exist in the new crop year, having
practically given up the idea of a
shortage before the new crop is har-
vested.
Sentiment in the corn trade is bear
lsh because of sluggish demand, Wis
ible supplies considerably above those
Of this time last year and the good
opening prospects for a large crop
this year.
The North Pacific Coast Including |
Northern California, has had abund-
INT rainfall, but Southern California
las been short and dry, farming will
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19
Chicago Produce Market

Chicago, May 18.-(AP)
Wheat underwent decided setback
in price today at the last. largely as a
result of extensive sales of wheat to
be shipped here from Minneapolis,
Kansas City, Omaha and other centers.
Besides, the United States visible sup
ply decrease today was smaller than
expected. Closing quotations were I'M
settled, 1 to &c net lower, MAY 1854
to 1864 and July 1.51s to 1.52, with
corn to 1sc off, oats ! to &c down
and provisions varying from 15c de-
cline to 35c advance
At first the wheat market displayed
a notable upward trend with a search
ty of offerings of May delivery in par
ticular Previous sellers of, the May
delivery gave evidence of being doubt
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19

light and handy weights 12.00@ 1850;
heavies downward to HOO: odd lots
culls 1000; few punches fat ewes 100
67.50; odd lots California wethers
$50; two doubles California springers
to feeder buyers 1850 averaging SO
nOundS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19
u. S. Bond Closing

New York. May 1S.-U. S. Gov
eminent bonds close:
Liberty Sis, 1919.
First 43s, 1925.
Second 43s, 101.11.
Third 4as, 1925.
Fourth 43s. 102.15.
U. S. Treasury As, 102.
U. S. 4ss, 1861.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-19
sblUE oKY LAW" ADVERTISE.
MENT

Application having been made to the
Banking Department by the following
named persons to be registered as
visions Of Chap. 1l4. Sec. 123-135, In
elusive. Of the Public Laws Of 1928.
legal notice is hereby given and any
person may. within two weeks from
the date Of this publication. file OBJ
lection 10 the proposed registration.
with the Banking Department.
Name Business Address
SUFFOLK Securities
COMPANY, 200 Devonshire st.,
Boston, Mass.
FRED r. LAWRENCE.
Bank Commissioners.
Augusta, Maine, May IS, 1925.
may19d1t
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New York. May Is.
Foreign exchanges steady.
Great Britain, demand 4S51. cables
4S5s, 60-day bills on banks 4.S1.
France. demand 5.19, cables 5.19..
italy, demand 4.06i. cables 4.07.
Belgium, demand 5.03a.
Germany, demand $3.50.
Holland, demand 40.16.
Norway, demand 1915.
Sweden, demand 1912.
Denmark, demand 1876.
Switzerland, demand 1885.
Spain, demand 14.46.
Greece, demand 1.78.
Poland, demand 19i.
Czecho-Sloyakia, demand 29e.
Jugo-S!avia. demand 1.62a.
Austria, demand .00143.
Rumania. demand .47s.
Argentina, demand 1880.
Brazil, demand 1920.
Toxic, demand AZ lis.
Shanghai, demand Is.
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New York Stock Market

C0FFeCted OaIIy by
J. A. GAMAGE e. co.
STOCK BROKERS
f35 Water Street Augusta
Phones 1291-1292
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New York Money Market

Total stock shares I .401 300 share.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
Tom Bell Speaks
at North Side Party
Branch Monday Night

On Monday, March 2, another lively
discussion is sure to bob up to follow
the lecture of Tom Bell on "The Com
munists in the Trade Unions"
The speaker, who is secretary of
the local Chicago Trade Union Edu-
cational League will give his lee
ture on the subject so much in the
public eye today-to clearly explain
the position of the Communists in
their principles and tactics.
Each meeting is thrown open for
discussion following the lecture and
this is usually feature of real in
terest.
The meeting is an open one to
which all workers are invited and is
held by the North Side branch of the
Workers Party at Imperial Hall, 24O6
N. Halsted St.. corner Fullerton Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
SACCO-VANZETTI MASS MEETINGS

5UFFALo-Fday Feb 27-Labr
Joseph Eor, James 6attestoni Reynolds others
NEW YoRk-sunday March Central M Sneak
ReInea euadasn Elizabeth FLYNN N
ogn, Juliet and Their
cHcAGo-sunday Memorial Hall Tavor and o,d.n
ss at 2;3o speskes Jack tombstone Chaplin
PITTSBURGH PA-sunday Lyeeum as Miller St
Speakers: Arturo oovannitt hers
BOSTON, MAsssunday Hail. Speakers
DETROIT. McHspeaker Joseph Hall announce later
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
SLAVE ON
AMERICAN FARMS
IN WEST INDIES
R o b b e d of Land
in Haiti

WASHINGTON, d. G., Feb. 26.-
American financiers have established
network of large plantations in
Haiti thru which small form owners
are being turned into day laborers
and poems, an investigator for So
cial welfare organization, just re-
turned from Haiti said in report is,
sued here. The investigator urged
the United States to stop the exploit
tations of these poor farmers. es
American influence in other of the
West Indies has meant the growth
of the plantations system and the
gradual appropriation of the land of
the people," the Investigators report
stated. This same process has been
initiated in Haiti since the American
occupation thru premissive laws
which it dictated and thru the estab-
lishment by Americans of sugar, pine,
apple and cotton plantations" ssH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
Tax on Big Fortunes
to Be Showed on the
Cockroaches by Cal

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. &c.
Administration officials, particularly
Andy Mellon, multi-millionaire secret
airy of the treasury, are figuring ON
putting over Coolidge's scheme to re-
duce the taxes on millionaires in
comes, and load them onto the petty
bourgeoisie.
The campaign is, of course carried
on under the camouflage slogan of.
reducing the sum of taxation in the
country as a whole, but the redisti-
buting of the tax burden is the main
idea.
Altho everybody admits that the
final figures on taxpayers for the
period of March 18th this year will
show that more million dollar returns
will appear than the year before, the
country can expect to be flooded with
wild tales about the Injury to BUSH
ness" and the flight of big incomes,
etc, from the agitators and news
papers of big capital. q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28

But it doesn't work. There are very
few supposedly charitable organiza-
lions involved.
The bulk of the money will go to
three fake charitable organizations,
the associated charities, the salvation
army, and the volunteers of America;
and four non-charitable organizations,
the Y. M. c. A., the Y. W. c. A., the
boy scouts and the girl scouts. This
is too raw to fool the people.
The papers which are now bowling
about the poor children, hestitated at
nothing in attacking the child labor
amendment. Thousands for charity
but to hell with justice is their motto.
Labor Council Does Its Duty.
The unorganized workers in the
mills are compelled to sign pledges
for definite amounts. But organized
labor, speaking thru the Tacoma Cen
trail Labor Council, refused to help
the grafters. 1t reminded them that
the bankers and business men back
of the drive have always fought for
lower wages and longer hours, and
that if it were not for such rotten
conditions charity would not be neces.
sary.
Recently the city council refused to
do anything to aid the unemployed
1t has fought against the union scale
Of wages for the employees on the mu
nicipal power plant.
Council Belongs to the Rich.
At the request of few rich taxpay
ers it revoked it's plan for a five cents
an hour raise for city employees
These few rich men are far more
readily listened to than the thousands
Of workers. The capitalist class steals
so much of what the workers produce
that they do not have enuf left to live
on. So charity becomes necessary.
And the same capitalist thieves ask
the workers to contribute for charity
And then steal part of this for agen
cies for capitalist and militarist prop
uganda, such as the Y. M. G. A. and
boy scouts. sgs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
New York Notes.

Section affair, Sat. Feb. 2S, at 134z
Boston Road. Concert, yetcherinka
and dance. All be there, and let's
have good time.
Section lecture, Sunday, Mar. /,
1S47 Boston Road, p. m. Juliet
Stuart Poyntz will lecture on "The
Modern Conflict - Communism VS..
Capitalism" ~
Section Glasses, Mondays, at 523 e.
173rd st. Anna Jacobson, elementary
English, p. m. ~
Tuesdays, at 1347 Boston Road. s
p. M, DR.. l. Stamler will continue his
class in the A. B. C. of Communism.
All new party members should attend
this class.
Saturdays, 523 E. 173rd ST., "a
p. m, Eli Jacobson teaches advanced
English.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28

by the railway during September-De-
cember was "a per cent higher than
the work for the corresponding period
of 1928 and was done with about the
same number of goods cars and only
some per cent more engines"
The general manager, accordingly,
feels it his duty to note that "the
passing of the whole enterprise to
new conditions has called forth a
wonderful impetus of energy, dill
gence and careful executions of duties
on the part of all the toilers of the
railway-which accounts for the fact
that such an intensive and strenuous
export campaign could be carried out
in the most orderly manner and with
excellent efficiency"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
And Then the British
Lion Let Out Another
Devastating Howl

MOSCOW, Jan. 24.-(By MaiD-It
is reported from Teheran that upon
his return from furiough, to the Pers-
ian capital, Shumiatzky, ambassador
Of the Union of Soviet Socialist Rus
STA in Persia, called on the president
of the Medjilis (parliamenD and con-
graduated him on the establishment
n Southern Persia of the national au-
thority of the central government.
The president of the Medjilis asked
Shumiatzky to convey to the people
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Rus.
STA the feelings of gratitude and
friendship of the Persian people.