Markets Review
Editor’s Note: Following; Is a
summary of market price Infor
mation for the week ended .lime
12, III lift, ns gathered and edited
hy the Market New's Service of
tlie V. Department of Agrl
cnlture in cooperation with the
r. S. Department of Agriculture.
The market for fryers' and
broilers was unsettled the first of
the week throughout the state
and confirmed farm prices ranged
from 11 ^2 to 15, with a larger
percent at 15. However, closing
trade was firm at 15 cents on
Friday.
Receipts were generally ade
quate at most points though some
markets were unable to obtain
enough birds to fill orders.
Elsewhere, the broiler markets
were about steady to slightly
stronger.
Trading for heavy hens was
firm all week for the limited of
ferings. Closing farm prices were
steady to around y2 cent higher
at 14 to 15y2, but mostly 15
cents.
Egg prices were weaker at Ra
leigh and Charlotte. Large sizes
were 2 y2 cents lower while med
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iums declined 2 cents per dozen.
Smalls, on the other hand, gained
IV2 cents. Clean and sized, mini
mum 80 percent A, quality re
ported at 27 cents per dozen;
mediums and smalls at 18 cents.
Prices fluctuated at local hog
markets. Opening trade was gen
erally higher, but closing sales
were about steady with last Fri
day’s at 16.00 to' 17.25.
Cash cattle prices wer steady
in Wilson. Choice steers and heif
ers ranged 25.25 to 29.00; good
grades 23.75 to 26.25; commer
cials 22.50 to 25.00. Beef type
cows 17.75 to 20.25; heavy cut
ters 16.00 to 18.50. Lightweight
bulls 17.00 to 19.00; heavyweights
from 19.00 to 23.00.
Daily cash cattle were un
changed at Greensboro. Strictly
prime steers and heifers ranged
from 28»50 to 30.00; good to
choice 25.00 to 28.50; standards
22.50 to 24.00. Beef type cows
16.50 to 20.00; bulls 19.00 to 24.00.
Good and choice vealers ranged
up to 33.00; and good and choice
butcher calves up to 27.00.
The cattle auction was fully
steady in Rocky Mount and
Greensboro. Good and choice
steers ranged from 26.00 to 29.00;
good and choice heifers 24.00 to
27.50; good and choice vealers
29.00 to 34.50; good and choice
butcher calves 25.00 to 29.00.
Commercial cows 20.00 to 24.00;
and commercial bulls 22.00 to
24.50.
Gain prices were irregular at
Piedmont and eastern North Car
olina points. No 2 red winter
wheat closed at 1.73 to 1.75 per
bushel in the eastern area; and
Stone’s Theft Balked Work
On Washington’s Monument
George Washington’s birth
day is also the anniversary of
the day when a group of poli
ticians stole his monument.
The memorial to the first
president of the U. S. was
just a square stub 150 feet
high in 1855. The cornerstone
had been laid on July 4, 1848
-—with the same trowel Wash
ington had used to lay the
cornerstone of the Capitol in
1793. But construction had
come to a standstill in 1T,54.
According to The World
Book Encyclopedia, a "gTTap
of men believed to be mem
bers of the American Party,
nicknamed “Know Nothings,”
had stolen a block of marble
donated by Pope Pius IX
from the Temple of Concord
in Rome.
at 1.80 to 2.00 in the Piedmont
section.
Oats were .60 to .61 cents per
bushel at eastern markets; and
.64 to .67 in the Piedmont.
Yellow shelled corn was 1.24
to 1.48 in the eastern section,
and 1.50 to 1.54 in the Piedmont.
No. 2 milo ranged from 2.25 to
2.50 per hundred pounds.
Spot cotton prices were slightly
stronger in Charlotte. Middling
1 1|32 inch on Friday was quoted
at 35.60; strict low middling at
33.10; and low middling at 29.20.
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The public was so shocked
by this act that contributions
for the monument virtually
stopped.
The Washington National
Monument Society, which had
been formed in 1832 to build
the memorial, appealed to
Congress for aid. The law
makers agreed to appropriate
$200,000 on Washington’s
Birthday, 1855, to complete
the monument.
But on the night of Feb.
21, Know Nothings broke in
to the offices of the society.
They seized its records, held
an election to put their own
members in office, and the
next day announced them
selves in possession of the
monument.
GOOD IMPRESSION
Continued From r*£.jje On»
port, N. Car., where Eli Miller
and I are staying for several
days. We left our homes on Mon
day evening and traveling by bus
arrived here on Tuesday after
noon. The purpose of this trip is
to see if the sea air is beneficial
for my asthma condition. As the
cold spell out of the northwest
reached here too the first two
days that we were here, it went
until yesterday before the wind
came in over the sea and one day
of sea air is not enough to tell
what the effects will be, so there
is nothing in that way to report
for this week.
“The readers might be wonder
ing where Southport is. It is
way down in the southeast point
of North Carolina at the point
sticking out into the ocean. It is
a small seaport town of about
2,000 population about 25 miles
out from the city and port of
Wilmington. There are no facto
ries at all in town and many of
its residents are retired people
or resorters and the like. Also
some of them are fishermen and
seamen. What we have seen so
far of the land it looks better
than the usual seacoast soil. To
bacco, com, truck crops are the
main crops. A large percentage of
the land still is in native forest
of which much is pine. Large
acreage of blueberries are grown
here in recent years. Much of
the soil is of a dark color, and
only small spots are of the white
or light-colored type.
“As both the gulf stream in
the water and the trade winds
out of the south temper or warm
the climate here, the growing
season is very long. The average
last killing frost comes about
February 20, and the first killing
frost late in November. It is
to be understood that this area
has a long growing season. On
the other hand, the summer tem
peratures don’t go as high as
many would suspect, because the
same factors that kept it from
getting so cold in winter also
kep it from getting so hot in the
summertime. In talking with a
19-year old boy yesterday I learn
ed that the extreme hottest he
had seen it was 103F. That, how
ever, was unusual with the wind
out of the northwest. The usual
high point is in the 90’s. The
average rainfall is around 50
inches a year. As the recent cold
spell had been preceded by a rain
the soil is nicely moist right now.
“In speaking about this com
munity one should not forget to
mention the friendliness of these
southern people here. They have
a very warm and welcoming way
with a stranger here. Of course,
part of that may come from this
town being a center for sport
fishermen to come to fish, espe
cially over the week-ends. The
town gives prizes for the largest
fish caught between May 1 and
September 1. So it gets rather in
teresting for those who prize
themselves as expert fishermen or
r
fisherwomen.
“As most of the readers are
farmers, it might be proper to
add a few words in the way of
the markets here. Southport of it
self offers no markets except
what the locaV trade consumes.
However Wilmington, with a pop
ulation of over 50,000, has live
stock markets as well as pro
duce markets. Due to its ocean
shipping facilities, a well as be
ing on the north and south routes
of both railroads and- highways,
its outlets are large. To me, the
farming prospects here seem well
worth investigating.”
In his letter he expresses fur
ther interest, and had the fol
lowing to say: '
“As to our coming to South
port it still is our plans, but still
too early to give anything def
inte in the matter. I will try and
keep you posted in the matter.
All things take time, and espe
cially if it not just to result in
a fly-by-night matter.
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