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JEWISH HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR 5676 



New Year, September 9 and 10, 1915. Best market days, Septem- 

 ber 3-7. Kinds most in demand: fowls, turkeys, ducks, and geese. 



Day of Atonement, September 18, 1915. Best market days, 

 September 13-16. All prime stock wanted, especially spring chickens 

 and roosters. 



Feast of Tabernacles, September 23 and 24, 1915. Best market 

 days, September 20-22. Kinds most in demand: fowls, ducks, and 

 fat geese especially. 



Feast of Law, September 30 and October i, 1915. Best market 

 days, September 27 and 28. Prime quality of all kinds wanted. 



Purim, March 19, 1916. Best market days, March 14-17. 

 Kinds most in demand: fowls and prime hen turkeys. 



Passover, April 18 and 19, 1916. Best market days, April 12-15. 

 Kinds most in demand: turkeys, heavy fowls, fat ducks, and geese. 



Last Passover, April 24 and 25, 1916. Best market days, April 

 19-22. Prune quality of all kinds wanted. 



Feast of Weeks, June 7, 1916. Best market days, June 1-5. 

 Good fowls especially wanted. 



E. Some Agencies of Price Control 



150. COFFEE "VALORIZATION" IN BRAZIL' 

 BY LINCOLN HUTCHINSON 



Rapidly increasing world demand, a wonderfully fertile soil, and 

 cheap labor kept the Brazilian coffee industry in a flourishing condi- 

 tion down nearly to the close of the imperial regime in 1889. After 

 the abolition of slavery and the establishment of the Republic, several 

 factors contributed to prolong the prosperity. World demand con- 

 tinued to increase, virgin soil was still available, immigration supplied 

 labor, and Brazilian currency was falling in gold value. The inevit- 

 able happened. Easy profits led to increased investments and care- 

 less methods. Little effort was made to cultivate intensively. Hand 

 labor in cultivating, picking, washing, drying, hulling, polishing, sort- 

 ing, packing, loading, remained in vogue, and planters fell into a 

 luxurious absenteeism in the capital or in Paris. 



The time came, about the beginning of the new century, when 

 conditions changed. Supply passed demand, formidable surplus 



1 Adapted from "Coffee 'Valorization' in Brazil," Quarterly Journal of Eco- 

 nomics, May, 1909, pp. 528-35. 



