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Boston Produce Markets 
(Continued from p.Tffe HOC.) 
.vet been I’cached. Other markets have 
boen higher than Boston. 8ome dealer.s 
lire predicting further advances. Northern 
tuh creamery extras are 44i^c; fir.sts, 43 
to 44c; seconds, 4l2i/^c. According to 
II. Stone »& Co., “The market trend is 
i upward. The Chamher of Commerce ((no¬ 
tations advanced a cent this week. Even 
the first.s and under grades are in good 
demand. Buyers do not eeem to be tak¬ 
ing aliead of immediate needs, not buying 
in large lots. It seems as though the day 
of low butter prices is over. In order 
to compete with milk aud cheese factories, 
liutter must he higher if the industry 
is to he contiuued. The quality is good 
for the time of year. Current I’oceiiits 
are a little less than last ye.ar at this 
time, and receijits for the whole sea.son 
hve been 12,CKX),000 lbs. short, owing to 
the late season, and this shortage will not 
be made up. Butter will coutinue to 
sell at a good round jirice. There is no 
export buying. Less than .500,(X)0 Ihs. 
has been shipped over the entire season, 
and with high freight nnd lack of space 
tlu're are no inuiK'd’ate prosju'cts, which 
DOMESTIC.—Joseph Glass, a private 
detective who had been employed by the 
Ilamilton Detective Agency of New 
York, pleaded guilty Sept. 6 in the Court 
of Special Sessions to the charge of tiu- 
lawfnlly arresting aud detaining Kenneth 
King, a sailor in the United States 
Navy. The sailor later was turned over 
to the Naval authorities as alde.serter. The 
detective was remanded to the Tombs for 
sentence. Four other recent recruits ap- 
jieared in court and testified that they 
had been arrested by Glass, handcuffed 
to a radiator and held under an armed 
guard. The navy pays .$50 each for de¬ 
serters, and the purpose of the detective 
was to hold the men until their leaves had 
(’xpiivd and then claim the rewards. 
Three persons were killed and 24 in- 
.iuml in an explosion at the Fraukford 
Ar.senal. Bhiladelphia, Sept. 8. 
Iklual suffrage for Maine women w’as 
defeated two to one ar the special elec¬ 
tion Sept. 10. 
is .iust as w('ll, as this counti-y can take <’'’i^’‘iWished German language r.iji.Lu.,,, lio-nd n.f Cmin 
..2 -I! ii,. —-T-.-i!-.. _ . . morning newsiiper, which is charged with ^ i ue l an.uiiau ito.iiu ot Giain r>upcr- 
liaving been attacking Government war has fixed the prices of the Caiia- 
September 22, HUT 
man added one part water to every two 
of genuine butter that he sold until aji- 
jireliendwl by members of the staff of 
Col. L. G. Nutt, supervising agent of 
internal revenue. 
According to reports received by the 
United States Department of Agricultnri’. 
the acreage of cabbage contracted for by 
krant manufacturers in 1017 is estimated 
to be 8,300, as compared with 0,(555 in 
1010, the number of factories being 2l2(t. 
of which 151 r('port(Hl. 
Formal iirotest charging that wlu’al" 
prices favoring Kansas City, Omaha, 
and Minneapolis will divert 75,CK)().()00 
bushels of wheat from the (’hieago inar- 
et was s<mt to Wasliington Sept. 8 by the 
Chicago Board of Trade and the Asso- 
C’atiou of (kunmerct'. Freight rates do not 
equalize the advantages the other cities 
have in the jirice fix('d by the Govern¬ 
ment, according to .T. S. Brown, manager 
of the transportation department of the 
Board of Trade. 
Light frost.s were reiiorted Sept. 10 
from .several points in western New 
York. Near Ea.st Aurora it reaclu'd the 
jiroportions of a “killing frost,” and 
truck farms, e.specially tomato fields, suf- 
<-arc of all its production. Cheese is up 
one-half cent, due to light receipts, and 
some buying by small jobbers who liad 
failed to provide themselves w'th the June 
aud July make. Packers have the bulk 
of (be stock aud se^'m to control the sit¬ 
uation. The jiriee is up one-eighth cent 
and selling 25i^ to 20c. Young Americas 
are 27c. Skims are 15 t(> 20c. 
FOG MAHKET FIRM. 
Beceipts of all gi-ades are moderate to 
I’ght, The total for the year, so far, is 
considerably below last year to corres¬ 
ponding date. Supplies seem to find suffi¬ 
cient buyei-s and there is no accumulation, 
except of low grade Western. Prime 
Western firsts are 44c; seconds, 30 to 
.‘Wc; Ejistei’u extras. 50 to 52e; uearbys, 
54 to 55c. Said a large receiver, “Eggs 
are a little firmer for fresh stock, but 
storage eggs are at a standstill. Receipts 
have been nearly ,30 per cent lighter than 
last^ year, and the comparative shortage 
is likely to increase, owing to the con¬ 
stant killing of flocks.” 
GOOD DE.MAND FOR FOWLS. 
Tlie poultry market this month has 
been much under the influence of special 
buying for the Jewish feast days. Choice 
live fowls have sold higher than chickens 
some of the time. “We have some lots of 
fowls aud chickens together in one coop. 
Usually that is not advi.sable, but this 
week we have been able to sell such lots 
at a uniform price, 25e being a common 
haais for fowls aud chickens. It is 
dotibtful if the jirice goes off much after 
the holidays are over, as supplie.s must 
have been greatly I’educed and poultry is 
one of the clunipi'st meats.” Live fowls 
have reached 27c at times for best lots, 
hut the general market has been anmud 
25c. S. L. Burr quotes live ducks at 18 
to 21c; old geese, 15e, and young geese 
18 to 20c; dressed Northern heavy fow’l, 
28c; .small, 22 to 23e; chickens, 414 lbs,, 
32 to .34c; 3i/4 lbs., 25 to 28; broilers, 
30 to .32; old roosters, 20e, and remarks, 
“I'he report of the U. S. Bureau of Mar¬ 
kets shows an increase of 228 per cent 
iu cold storage poultry, compared with 
Sept. 1 last year, which figures have been 
misunderstood to mean that poultry re¬ 
serves are enormous. The fact is that 
storage st(K-ks were nearly cleared out on 
8ept. 1 last year, and the actual comli- 
tiou now is m*er('ly that there is a con¬ 
siderable amolunt still unsold, but it has 
cleared up better than seemed likely not 
long ago.” 
LIVE STOCK A.\D MEATS. 
Beef cattle have not Hisjionded fully to 
the strong tone of the meat market. 
Whole beef, choice Western, sells iu Bos¬ 
ton at 2.3c and good cow beef at 15, but 
the top for live cattle at Brighton yards 
holds at about 11c, although a few have 
sold at 12e. One reason is that the stock 
coming is not really fancy. Lower grades 
range from 7^4 to 10c, Cows sell from 7 
to 9e, cauners around oc. Choice calves 
sell as high as 14 to 15c. Choice veal is 
20e iu Boston and some has been even 
higher. Hogs sell mostly at 18% li\’e 
aud 23%e dressed. I>ive sheep are C to 
10c and lambs 12 to 14c. Milch cows 
are slow to sell; more cows than buyers; 
range is .$50 to $1.50, mostly $.50 to $80. 
THE MARKET FOR NEW ENGLAND HAY. 
The agricultural committee of the Bos¬ 
ton Chamber of Commerce has recently 
made inquiry about the lack of a satis¬ 
factory luarKOt for the general run of 
New England hay. “We told them.” 
commented a leading firm, “that the diffi¬ 
culty was iu a lack of definite grading. 
But much of our New England hay is 
grown on old run-out mowings and is not 
strong aud clean enough to suit a trade 
accustomed to coarse, clean Western. The 
remedy is to make more of a business of 
haji' production, aud raise and bale it to 
suit the market. Of course we get a 
great deal of good hay from Maine, and 
some from Vermont, but most from South¬ 
ern New’ England is too fine and not what 
the market prefers.” Good No. 1 horse 
hay is quoted at .$21 to $22; good clover 
mixed, $17; swale hay, $15; rye straw, 
$15; oat straw, $10. Receipts are mod¬ 
erate, so far. (Considerable old hay is 
still coming, but there is not much call 
for it. The quotations above are for new 
hay, which seems of more attractive qual¬ 
ity than most of the old crop. o. B. F. 
policies for sever.al mouths past, Federal 
agents Bept. 10 arrested the ed'tor aud 
luisiness manager aud confiscateci large 
quantities of coiTespondenee, files ami 
d<5cunmnts. The prisoners, who are charged 
with violating the espionage act, are Dr. 
Martin Darkow, editor, aud Herman 
Lcmke, business mauagei*. Warrants also 
have been issued for the president, treas¬ 
urer, ed-'toi*-in-chief aud an editori.al 
writer. In the b<X)ks aud records of the 
Tagehlatt is evidenced that it received i-eg- 
ular money contributions from a man iu 
Mexico, supposed to have been a (lerman 
agent. The books also show that the 
Tagehlatt was not supported by the Gor- 
mau labor organization, for which it 
cla’med to be the official organ, but had 
entirely different and much more mys¬ 
terious sources of income. 
Evidence of alarming increase iu the 
membership of the I. W. W. aud of vast 
sums spent in propag.anda work was laid 
before the Federal Grand .Tury at Chi¬ 
cago Sept. 10 as a result of its sweep’'iig 
investigation of the books of I. W. W. 
and Socialist branches throughout the 
United States following recent raids. 
Three startling facts which show the 
power of the organization and which 
were to be taken into account by the jury 
in determining the danger of the I. W. W. 
.and means to be taken to curb its activi¬ 
ties are: In three years the organization 
h.as gained l.OCK) per cent, in member¬ 
ship. It now has 90,000 persons on its 
rolls. In the last year, and not includ¬ 
ing the exceedingly active month of Au¬ 
gust, the Chicago office alone handled 
$300,000. 
Alexander Berkmau, the au.archist 
leader, riKieutly convicted of conspiracy 
against the selective draft law, was re¬ 
leased on hail at New York for a few 
minutes Sept. 10. Berkinan’s follow'ei’s 
raised $15,000 which, with the ,$10,0()0 
that had been iin])ounded by the goveru- 
meut from his first bail b<Dud, made up 
till' amount required for his release'. It 
was' aecejited by Alexander Gilchrist, a 
clerk of the Federal Court, but as soon 
as Berkman started to leave the Federal 
Building he was re-arrest(’d by Police 
Lieuti'iiant.s Baruitz aud McCoy on a 
warrant issued by the Superior Court of 
Snu Francsico. The warrant cliurged 
B(‘rkinau Avith murder in conuectiou with 
the I'repaiH'duess Day explosion iu San 
Franc'SCO, when several persons were 
killed. 
Lieut. Capt. Max Tbiericheus, former 
commander of the seized German raider 
Prinz Eitel Friednch, was held at Phila¬ 
delphia Sept. 11 in $2,000 bail by Com¬ 
missioner Long on a chai-ge of sending 
an improper letter to a school teacher at 
Sagimnv, Mich. Tbiericheus also, is 
awaiting trial on smuggling aud Mauu 
act charges. 
I )allas Co., Tex., vote<l for prohibition 
Sept. 10 In the city of Dallas 220 sa- 
loon.s, one brewery and 12 wholesale 
liquor houses will be forced out of 
business. 
FARM 'AND GARDEN.—The “Of¬ 
ficial Bulletin” announced Sept. 5 the 
following cablegram from the American 
consulate general at Loudon: Ministry 
of munitions as of August 25 takes 
possession of all flax of United Kingdom 
growth not iu siiiuners’ possession aud 
all other llax except Russian flax situ¬ 
ated iu United Kingdom. All flax will 
be divided into six grades and paid for 
at following prices per .stone; .35s., 
32%.s., ;i0s., 27%s., 20%s., aud 25s., 
respectively. After September 18 no per¬ 
son shall manufacture wet-siiun flax yarn 
made of flax line except under license. 
Price fixing for meat and dairy products 
has no place in the Government’s food 
control plans, Herbert Hoover, the Food 
Administrator, told the national live stock 
conference Sept. 0. Not only would it 
be inadvisable to iustHute price fixing in 
these industries, he asserted, but the Food 
Administration has been given no such 
power. 
Max Kroueiigold, a food dealer of 
Washington Market, New York City, 
was fined $200 Sept. 7 by a Federal 
Court for adulterating butter with water. 
By his own admission to Assistant United 
States Attorney Julian Hartridge the 
dian wheat crop of 1917 at Fort IVill- 
iam aud Port Arthur as follows: Mani¬ 
toba, northern, No. 1, .$2.21; northern, 
No. 2, .$2.18; northern. No. 3, .‘82.15. 
Alberta i'(xl winter, No. 1, .$2.21; red 
winter, No. 2, .$2.18; ivd winter. No. 3, 
$2.1,5. It i-S understood the (Canadian 
prices are the same as for the three 
grades of dark Spring northern nad dark 
hard Winter at Minneapolis aud Duluth. 
WASHINGTON.—After fifteen hours 
of debate the $11,5.38,945,460 bond bill, 
the largest in the liistory of the country, 
was pass('d by a viva vocc vote iu the 
House Sept. 0. The bill wasi passed 
practically as it came from the commit¬ 
tee, there being only one or two minor 
changes. Au amendment offered by 
Representative Cannon, Illinois, provid¬ 
ing that holders of bonds in amounts up 
to $5,000 shall not be subjected to any 
taxation except State inheritance taxes, 
was adopted by the House. 
President Wilson, by a pi’oclamation 
issued Sept. 7, added coin, bullion and 
currency to the export embargo list, 
wh’ch already included practically 
every article of commerce that foreign 
countries might desire. The embargo i.s 
not absolute, but may be relieved by the 
issuance of licenses. It applies to the 
Allies a.s well as to neutrals aud enemy 
couuti’ies, aud became operative Sept. 
10. Licenses, instead of issuing fi’om the 
exports administrative board, will be 
granted by the Federal Reserve Board 
in Washington on recommendation of 
the Federal Resiu’ve bank in the district 
frciin which it is desii-ed to export the 
coin, bullion or currency, all lic(>ns('s to 
he subject to the final approval of the 
Secretai’y of the Tre.asury. 
For relief of American citizens in 
Germany or German occupied territory 
and American prisonei’s of war who may 
he taken by German forces Secretary 
Lansing Sept. 32 asked Congi’css to a))- 
propriate $80,600. Mr. Lansing also 
asked for $300,(X)0 for special alloAvaiu’es 
to consular and dijilomatic otlicers at 
Hongkong, Saigen, Tsing-tau, Darien and 
yiadivostock so as to adjust their ’Official 
income to the cost of living. II., also 
iisked for .$.325,000 for allowances for 
clerks at ovei-worked consulates, $132,000 
for conting('nt exiienses of foreign mis¬ 
sions, $120,000 for clerk hire and other 
expenses at the State Department to keep 
ui) with the war developments and .$75,- 
000 for travelling expenses of this Gov¬ 
ernment’s diplomatic aud consular per¬ 
sonnel. 
The Senate Sept. 10 passed the war 
revenue bill by a vote of 69 to 4. Iu 
the final count only Senators Borah, 
Gronua, La^ Follette aud Noi’ris recorded 
themselves iu opi>ositioii to the measure 
in it.s entirety. The Senate’s action is 
the climax of 108 days of deliberations in 
th(‘ Gonmiittee on Finance and iu the 
Senate itself. The gross levy which it is 
estimated the bill will provide is .‘^,406,- 
670,000. The bill as passed bv the House 
May 23 called for .$1,867,870,000. The 
ameudments written into the measure in 
the last hours of its discussion reduced 
it from the estimated amount of Sep. 
9, which was $2,,500.000,000. Never¬ 
theless, aud even considering the changes, 
it is by many millions of dollars the 
lai*gest revenue euactment ever passed 
by a legislative body and provides for 
the collection of a revenue within a sin¬ 
gle year of pract’cally half the entin 
cost of the American civil war as ex¬ 
pended by the Federal Government be¬ 
tween the years 1861 aud 1865. 
Licensing of all manufacturers, refinerh 
and importers of sugar has been deter¬ 
mined upon by President Wilson, ac¬ 
cording to announcement made by the 
Food .(Ulministration Sept. 12. The pro¬ 
clamation of the President ■will require 
the licieusiug by October 1 of “all per¬ 
sons, firms, corporations and associations 
engaged in the business either of import¬ 
ing sugar or manufactui-ing sugar from 
sugar cane or beets or for refining sugar 
or of manufacturing sugar syrups or 
molasses.”_ The issuance of licenses, the 
promulgation of rules and regulations for 
the Government of licenses, and genera) 
control of the sugar industry will rest 
with the Pood Administration. 
