| Show youth of nation tops death list in U S auto fatalities AUTO DEATH RATE YOUTH under asto 45 75 to 55 rs years yv rs OF years evirs years years years 1730 1300 1250 af syr 1000 boo N 0 W N afis 0 14 61 01 Y pays the heaviest toll in annual automobile fatalities from froin five to fifteen years la Is the period when the greatest number of fatal accidents occur for both sexes the cliart chart shows the age distribution of automobile deaths for or men and women as given in the latest mortality figures prepared by the government these figures says gays the stewart warner safety council tor for the prevention of automobile accidents emphasize tb the need for more playgrounds and increased safety education among school children complete statistics are dot cot possible as only 85 per cent of the united states keeps mortality records about a year Is generally conceded to be the annual Dumb erpf automobile fatalities for males known to have been killed in one year there were only a third as many women or 2813 2845 tc if spite of the fact that the male population Is only 4 per cent greater than the female this chart does not take into consideration the americans who are injured annually by automobiles such figures anre not available except in certain states but that boys and girls again make up the bulk of such casualties Is indicated by the records of new york state kept tor for the first nine months of 1025 here or practically one third of the injured were under fifteen years of age HOW THE LAMB MARKET BEHAVED IN PRICE WEEKLY TREND OF FAT LAMB PRICES AND TS TOTAL OF I 1 F i EA PER JAN FEB MAY JUL AUG WEEK AT ai N UND ED LEADING POUNDS I 1 1850 1 MOO PRICES RECEIPTS 1650 1600 1550 ISOO 14 so y 1400 A i 1350 1300 PRICES VV 4 1 1 1 1 CULTURA rou N 1250 1 1 T THE III prices for lamb have been relatively high in 1925 knitli lamb iamb supplies available for slaughter only slightly below normal figures according to an analysis of the lamb market by the sears roebuck agricultural foundation in the sheep producing states pastures and ranges have been good condi eions in the whole eliol e area west of the hie rocky mountains are vastly better than they were a year ago the sheep industry Indy stry was much more profitable in 1025 than it was in 1924 lamb prices in chicago averaged 1535 1533 in november 1925 as compared with in an average of tor for the same month in the five years from 1909 to 1913 the top price was reached in january at 1850 per hundredweight and the low price ot of 1250 came in may both prices and receipts have fluctuated up up and down through the entire season but efforts to expand production have kept market receipts down because ranchers were retaining their ewe lambs which to replenish and increase their flocks the number of ewes slaughtered from july to september in 1925 1923 if the smalle smallest bt for that same period during the last four 3 sears ears the number of lambs on oil feed both 1 in the corn belt and in the western feeding districts Is smaller than last year and some advance in the present price of lamb seems probable from now on there will probably be a larger lamb iamb crop however this spring and a moderately lower level of prices as these lambs come to market during 1920 1926 |
