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...figuring each hog at 240 Ib. Another boon to hog farmers has been the low price of corn. It is generally assumed by farmers that they can make money if they can sell their hogs at a hundredweight price ten times higher than the cost of a bushel of corn. Corn on the Iowa farm last week was selling at 20-21¢ a bushel while hogs on the farm brought $4.25, or twice as much as usual. Only thing that disturbed farmers was the prospect of a rise in corn prices. Rain sent the corn stalks much beyond...
...price of May wheat was 48¾? a bushel. Last week it rose to 61¾?. Bullish factors were: a reported 16% decrease in winter wheat acreage; the return of several bull operators to the Pit after a long absence; heavy buying from England in anticipation of a tariff; covering of short positions and long-buying from foreign interests who were heavily short around the lows. Cotton advanced slowly, steadily. Factors were a September rate of consumption better than that of last year, reopening of many Lancashire mills after the pound's fall, also British buying against a possible...
Under People, TIME. Sept. 7, you inform us that cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin offered a prize of 20 pounds sterling to that porter of London's Borough market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head...
offered a prize of ?20 to that porter of London's Borough Market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head. Cinemactor Chaplin once lived in Southwark, had porters for friends...
...Industrial Farmer Campbell's program the two important points were: 1) tax foreign hedgers 21 ?(one-half the tariff rate) on every bushel of wheat they sell short in the Chicago market, on the ground that such sales depress prices as much as if the wheat were actually brought into the U. S.; 2) cut in half the tariff rebate (now 40^) on every bushel of Canadian wheat brought into the U. S. under bond for milling and export, thereby giving U. S. wheat a 22(- advantage for this trade...