Show from our correspondent at washington D C moio 1010 teisin fuents four million homce the total number of homes enumerated in 1920 identical with the number of wa was gag of 0 this number were rented and were owned by their occupants and for the remaining the facts as to tenure were not ascertained by the enumerators of 0 the owned homes were free from encumbrance and were encumbered cumb ered while for the remaining the status as to encumbrance was not reported in computing percentages the relatively small number of homes for which the facts as to ownership or encumbrance were not ascertained by the census enumerators were apportioned by the bureau among the rented owned free and owned encumbered groups in the same proportion as the homes for which reports as to ownership and encumbrance were made homes owned mortgaged and rented according to a census statement per cent of the homes in the united states in 1920 were rented per cent were owned by their occupants and were freo free from encumbrance and per cent were owned by their occupants but were mortgaged the proportion which the mortgaged homes formed of the total number of homes An increased creased from per cent in 1900 to 15 per dicent cent in ili 1910 and to per cent in 1920 tho the term home as employed by the census bureau signifies tho the abiding place of a single family end nd does not therefore necessarily essa rily denote an entire dwelling which may house a number of families is as in the case of an apartment building moreover two or more families may occupy an all ordinary dwelling house tho the sic and speed of trucks how large is tle tue average truck and how fast does it travel this question and others of 0 interest to truck owners and users of the highways arc ara answered by information obtained in a recent traffic census taken by the bureau of public roads united states department of agriculture on one of 0 the most traveled highways in tew new england the census discloses that 40 per cent of the trucks were of 1 ton capacity or less 3 33 per cent between 1 and 21 tons 5 per cent between 2 21 A and 5 tons and that less les than 2 per cent of the trucks were of more than 5 tons capacity on a level stretch of road over which the speed of motor vehicles vehicle 3 was timed it was found that more tucks trucks traveled at a speed of 20 miles an hour than at any other rate thirty seven per cent traveled 20 miles an hour or faster one truck whole whose driver said he was in a hurry to get there was found to be traveling at a speed of 45 miles an hour exports of foodstuffs the exports of foodstuffs have been this year to a surprising degree A comparison of exports for september 1921 with the same month a year ago and the five year average 1910 1914 shows that bread breadstuffs stuffs including all grains was I 1 three times the prewar pre war average meats over twice as much dried fruits nearly double and canned goods three times as great wheat he it products were exported in surprisingly large volume during july and august this year while in the past the movement was usually low at this period taking its upturn in auguest and reaching the height in october this year however the increase of exports began in april and continued with very little decline n july meat products declined in quantity from the first of 0 the year until may when exports increased coming back to the level of january which as noted above was more than double the prewar pre war and nearly double the amount exported in september a year ago lard exports usually run fairly uniform through tho the year reaching a high point in february this year a decline started in that month but a new upturn began in may and by september had reached a level twice above the top of 0 last year and nearly three times the prewar pre war average it appears that decline in prices of american products was followed by an increased demand for them abroad |