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The Florists' Review 



JCMB 11, 1914. 



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rpLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY^ 



31 IE 



Greenhouse Heating. 



SuBSCRiBEBS are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Beview to make a choice of ap- 

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 believe, the. best for the trade to buy, 

 and each article the best in the special 

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PROSPECTS IN THE COAL TEADE. 



When a market is continuously, al- 

 most unchangeably dull, when there are 

 no improvements and no new catastro- 

 phes to herald to the world, what can 

 the unhappy market reporter do in 

 order to prevent his reports from being 

 even duller than the market? When he 

 has repeated over and over, with as 

 many variations of phraseology as pos- 

 sible, the one outstanding fact that 

 "there is nothing doing," he must fill 

 the rest of his allotted space with ar- 

 guments and predictions, as wise and 

 as thrilling as possible. If his stock 

 of facts is exhausted, he must offer the 

 wares of the philosopher and prophet. 

 He can vary his theorizing a little by 

 reasoning backwards, from the future 

 to the present, like the reporter in the 

 Black Diamond, who says: "When any 

 line of trade concentrates its atten- 

 tion most upon future prospects it may 

 be concluded that current business is 

 at least unsatisfactory if not decidedly 

 dull. The coal trade this week is look- 

 ing forward to the first of August or 

 the first of September, when it ex- 

 pects to have a good run of business. 

 As this signifies clearly, current busi- 

 ness is away below normal." 



The paper just quoted also philoso- 

 phizes as follows: "Up to now we 

 have had a business condition compara- 

 ble only to the situation in 1897. At 

 that time the depression was dissi- 

 pated by an extraordinarily good crop 

 through the country. The present busi- 

 ness depression likewise promises to be 

 dissipated by a good crop this year. 

 Business men are much interested in 

 the situation, because this year will be 

 the crucial test of the influence of the 

 tariff upon general business conditions. 

 If a good crop can lift the country out 

 of its present business lethargy, busi- 

 ness men believe that the ghost of low 

 tariff and high tariff can be laid for 

 all time." 



After describing the general quietude 

 in the coal market throughout the 

 country, the Black Diamond thus de- 

 scribes the situation in smokeless coals 

 at Chicago: "The smokeless market 

 has been in a rather peculiar position. 

 One or two of the demoralizing influ- 

 ences have been removed, but others of 

 less importance have come in to take 

 their place. One disappointed buyer of 

 a smokeless mine is offering coal at 

 extremely low prices.^ The mine was 

 purchased in the first place to supply 

 the buyer with his own requirements. 

 Certain qualities of the coal, however, 



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prevented his using it in his own plant, 

 80 he is peddling the coal to the retail 

 trade and then buying on the open mar- 

 ket to satisfy his own wants. It is per- 

 tinently suggested that he is naming a 

 price on his own product with an idea 



of influencing the price at which he 

 will have to buy his own supply and 

 thus is dictating some rather low fig- 

 ures. Mine-run coal, in fact, has sold 

 in Chicago at 85 cents per ton. In ad- 

 dition, two or three small operating 



