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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



February 1, 192 1 



SILKS: 



Ctnton, 38-inch yari -30 @ 



Schappe. 36 inch SO @ 



STOCKINETTES: 

 SINGLK THItK.Ml: 



3K Peeler, carded pound (* 



4>4 Peeler, carded 55 @ 



(,>A Peeler, combed 85 @ 



norm.E TnnBAD; 



Zero Peeler, carded pound .45 @ 



Hi Peeler, carded 52"/5@ 



m Peeler, combed @ 



TIKE FABRICS: 

 BUILDING: 



17vi-ounce Sakellarides, combed pound •2.35 @ 



17Vi-ource Egyptian, combed '2. 15 @. 



17^-cunce Egyptian, carded *2.0S @ 



17'/iounce Peeler, combed *2-25 @ 



17 !<S ounce Peeler, carded *1'*7 @ 



CORD: 



15-ounce Egyptian P<»"'^ '2M @ 



BICYCLE: 



8-ounce American pound "1.50 @ 



10-ounce American •1.48 @ 



CHAFER: 



9!4-ounce Sea Island poiinrf @ 



9>4 -ounce Egyptian, carded *2.29 '■' 



9 >4 -ounce Peeler, carded '1-71 '"' 



•Mill prices of August I. 1920. 



THE EGYPTIAN COTTON CROP FOR 1919-20 



Approximately 652,240,017 pounds of Egyptian cotton are avail- 

 able this season, according to a report from Consul Lester May- 

 nard at Alexandria, and which total is made up from a carry-over 

 of 39.421,998 pounds on September 1, 1920, and the estimated new 

 crop of 612,818,019 pounds. In view of the fact that the 1920 

 yield was 74,346,228 pounds greater than the previous season and 

 the heavy falling off in the demand from the United Kingdom, 

 the principal buyer; due to disturbed economic conditions a 

 further fall in price in addition to the drop of 25 per cent from 

 the figures ruling last winter, is forecasted. Growers fear com- 

 petition with California and Arizona planters who have had a 

 large crop of high quality, and restriction of credit is also forcing 

 many who were holding back their crops for higher prices to 

 sacrifice them. 



According to the Ministry of Agriculture, 1,897,418 acres are 

 planted to cotton in Egypt, thus breaking all records, but of the 

 total acreage only 69.5 per cent has been planted to S'akellarides 

 cotton, as compared with 73 per cent for the two preceding sea- 

 sons. The estimated yield for the whole of Egypt per acre is 336 

 pounds. 



Salient features of the 1919-1920 season were the remarkable 

 size of the crop, the extraordinary prices paid, and the unprece- 

 dented shipments to the United States, where, it is believed, there 

 is still a considerable amount of Egyptian cotton on hand, despite 

 large resales to Liverpool. The American purchases were 256,555 

 bales, compared with 95,262 for the preceding season. Inci- 

 dentally Boston assumed first place in the world as a foreign 

 importing port of Egyptian cotton, its imports of the latter 

 almost equalling those of Liverpool and Manchester combined. 



THE MARKET FOR CHEMICALS AND COMPOUND- 

 ING INGREDIENTS 

 NEW YORK 



THIS market has been featured by general dullness with slightly 

 downward tendency in prices noted in lead pigments and 

 lithopone. The trade in general has not experienced much re- 

 newed activity since the holiday and inventory season. On all 

 sides there is an apparently well founded feeling of optimism that 

 trade and industry will share a goodly season of prosperity with 

 the coming of Spring. 



Aniline Oil. The market was well stocked at the first of the 

 year and in response to a strong demand prices advanced two cents 

 per pound early in the month, holding firm at 23 to 26 cents, and 

 later rising to 26 to 30 cents. 



Barytes. The demand has remained moderate the whole 

 month with prices unchanged. Several barytes companies in St. 

 Louis have consolidated into a new absolutely independent organ- 

 ization. 



Benzol. The market has been mostly dull with slight tendency 

 to improve. The grades were quoted as follows, 90 per cent at 

 28 cents and pure at 30 cents per pound. 



Blacks. Demand very moderate and prices nominal for sev- 

 eral weeks past. 



Blanc Fixe. Very quiet, only routine demand. 



Blue Lead. Early in the month quotations were 8% to Syi 

 cents, falling promptly in common with the other lead pigments 

 by one cent per pound to 7J4 cent level. 



Carbon Bisulphide. The demand has been limited and quota- 

 tions stood at 8 to 9 cents per pound. 



Carbon Tetrachloride. The market was very quiet most of 

 the month, the prices rising the last week from 11 to 12 cents to 

 12 to 12j4 cents under firmer demand. 



China Clay. Light importations and very moderate demand 

 for stock. 



Dry Colors. The market has been subject to some price cutting 

 to stimulate purchases but higher values are anticipated in the 

 near future. 



Hexamethylene Tetramine. Quotations early in the month 

 were $1.40 to $1.60 per pound, declining later to $1.15 to $1.20. 



Litharge. The early price was 9^4 to 10 cents with light de- 

 mand prevailing. The price suffered a decline of one cent per 

 pound, in common with sublimed lead and blue lead. The rubber 

 industry has been taking very little litharge since the first of 

 the year. 



Lithopone. Stocks are accumulating with the producers and 

 although the current quotations held for the first half of the 

 month at 7J4 to 8 cents, toward the latter part they were cut to 

 7 to 7l4 cents, due to action of the producers to curtail their 

 costs of production, partly by reduction of wages to a more 

 reasonable level. 



Solvent Naphtha. The demand has been very inactive. 



Sublimed Lead. This material has been affected by the same 

 influences and subject to a common price reduction of one cent 

 a pound as the other lead pigments, the latest quotations being 

 7li to 714 cents a pound. 



Sulphur. The market has held throughout the month quite 

 inactive. Commercial flour was quited at $1.60 per hundred- 

 weight. 



Whiting. The demand has continued routine only. 



Zinc Oxide. The factories are producing at full capacity in 

 anticipation of an early spring demand on the part of the manu- 

 facturers with the revival of automobile production for the com- 

 ing season. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS 



January 24. 1921 

 Prices subject to change without notice 

 ACCBLERATOBS, ORGANIC 



Accelerene (f. a b. English port) lb. lis. 6d. 



Accelemal lb. @ 



Aldehyde ammonia crystals lb. $1.15 @$1.20 



Aniline oil lb. .24 @ 



Excellerex lb. @ 



Fiexamethylene tetramine (powdered) lb. 1.15 



N. C. C lb. 



No. 999 lb. .17H(j 



(a 1.20 



