. Hardware merchandising January-June 1898. it is not the less disappoint-ing that the increase of 1896 over 1895 wasnearly twice as great, viz., 474,866 number of ships that used the canalwas about 7,784, with a tonnage of approxi-mately 2,400,000 ; while in 1896 the ton-nage of the 10,274 ships that sailed along itwas 2,226,264. THE FLAXSEED SITUATION. The fact that domestic flaxseed has ad-vanced to a parity with foreign laid downhere has led to rumors of considerableengagements of the latter by seaboardcrushers, and this is construed as a featureof the situation likely to depress
. Hardware merchandising January-June 1898. it is not the less disappoint-ing that the increase of 1896 over 1895 wasnearly twice as great, viz., 474,866 number of ships that used the canalwas about 7,784, with a tonnage of approxi-mately 2,400,000 ; while in 1896 the ton-nage of the 10,274 ships that sailed along itwas 2,226,264. THE FLAXSEED SITUATION. The fact that domestic flaxseed has ad-vanced to a parity with foreign laid downhere has led to rumors of considerableengagements of the latter by seaboardcrushers, and this is construed as a featureof the situation likely to depress the , however, says The Oil,Paint and Drug Reporter, fails to showthat there has been any foreign seed boughtby crushers here beyond the purchases ofCalcutta necessary to meet the demand for?that oil which is to be reckoned on through-out the year. The position of seed abroad,or, more especially, of the Indian crop,would justify engagements for some timeahead at current quotations at the primary HARDWARE AND METAL 13. DEALERS ! Do you know that the sale ofENAMELiNE in America is more than Double that ofany other Stove Polish on earth ? Do you know thatthe sale of Fnameiine ^heModem STOVE POLISH in Europe is more than the entire output of any otherbrand of Stove Polish in America ? Such is A FACT !Why ? Because Consumers and the Trade demandENAMELINE. markets, and so far as we are able tolearn, the business has been limited to pur-chases on this account. Confidence in themaintenance of prices on flax is not suffi-ciently pronounced to lead crushers to buylinseed in competition with domestic as present net cost of Calcutta seed laiddown here would be but little above that ofdomestic on an all-rail freight rate, and inview of the greater yield from the imported5eed, the oil would probably cost no morethan that made from flax on a basis of theextreme quotations of the past week. Atthe nominal quotations made for Argentineseed, the latter could be laid do
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