HEMP & TOW GRADING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2248, 7 September 1914, Page 8

HEMP & TOW GRADING

;/ .; A return '.'showing the quantities of ! . nenip, tow, and stripper slips, graded at I tue ports of tho Dominion during the • month bf August, 1914, prepared by the ; Departments Agriculture, states that f tho total number of bales of hemp P : graded was '5003, as compared with t . b155 for the corresponding month of ' last year, a decrease of 3150 bales. For ; . tho.twelve months ending August 31, : 1914, the niiinbor of bales graded was !■■■ 126,319, /as xompared with 154,249 for i the previous twelve months, the dol crease being;. 27,930 bales. ■ During the mouth. 1240 bales of tow }.- ivers- dealt with, as compared with 2545 ; :for tho corresponding month of last i year,.a decrease of 1305 bales. For the !' twelve' months ending August 31, 1914, i .the number of bales graded was 40,035, • f . 'as compared with 53,671 for tho pre- ; vious twelve months, a decrease of > :13;036 bales; » _r -:; '"■;■:"'; '-::; ■•< ;■ - I ■; During the Bonth "the number'' of j\ tales of stripper slips graded was 71, ! as compared with 243 for the corres- ;> ponding month of last year, a decrease ?.; of. 172 bales. > For the., twelve months 1 ending/August 31, 1914, the number of r bales dealt with wa5,:3388. ■ ...•■.