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81T U X AVAD St Croix December 6th 1921. To the Editor of St. Croix Avs. Dear Sir: Enclosed please find extracté.a of the letter to The Invest.zation Committee referred to in your publication of yesterday, relating to prices to be paid during the time field trials are carried out. Kindly publish same, and oblige Yours truly F. ANDERSEN. PIECE WORK 1. Spreading pen manure lic. per load averaging 1,000 pounds. 2.a. Covering manure or trash with hoe, both sides when land not fal- lowplowed, 2c. per i~ .J 0 feet. : b. ditto when land “..owpiowed Ilsc. per line of 100 feet. 3. Hauling up Funk. In heavy Y.nd not fallowplowed 44c. per line of 100 feet. . b‘:; [ 6. 40' ‘e s ‘s [ T hely < gae. o 4. PLANTING PLANTTIOPS , a. 25¢f per 1,000 tops in wel! prepared land. L e ¢ ' foreed land. 5. ROPPING PLANTTOPS Bc. per 1,000 tops. . WEEDING Plant Canes, heaviest grass 3ic. per line of 100 feet. e- W Ratoon Cancs heaviest grassdbe. * '@ ' °'* ' Hghies gue I 3 0 C Y ARK. For the “rst weeding after the resumption of the work 27 ,to be added to the above figures. . New experiments to be carried out {for weeding in flat culfivated fields. 7. CUTTING CANE : 25¢c. per 1,000 pounds. & TINING CANE. One man ties for 3 cutters. - ceceives the same pay as the cut- ter. when the field yields over a hogshead an acre. When the field yields less than a hogshead an acre one laborer ties for three cutters and receives the pay of one second class laborer. 9. BANKING TRASH a. In wet trash in sprouts ¥Bc. per 1,000 ‘eet clean bank. b. In fields just after cutting 14c. per L,OOO feet clean bank. 10. CUTTING GUINEA GRASS: Bundles 26’’ around at tie band. a. Long Grass: 4c. per dozen bundles. b. Short Grass: (18 ac.. Lor less) be. per dozen bundles. 11 Weeding road on both sides, and throwing up stuft. B WL Ea Laad .. i 0070 per 100 1t b. Secoud‘* Y ee g T e Thid ' S s LOCAL. The Creole sails for St. Thomas at 10 this a.m. Mails close at 9.30. The Industrial Brass Band owing to the weather had to postponed its pro- mised concert last night, but will do so to-night. Weather permitting. Tonight there will be presented a very well recommended film at the Christian- sted Theatre also the continuarion of the popular film ‘'The 20th Century Die- tionary. Secure your seats in time and see ‘'‘Bud and Susie in hunting the Hippo’’. The S. S. W. M Tupper est here yes- terday afternoon: for St. Kitts, TELEGR . MS. ST. CROIX STATION. New York, Dec. 3rd. -The raw sugar market was quiet and as no sales were reported, prices were unchanged at 3.87 to 4.11 for centrifugal’ 'he market tor raw sugar tutures. was quiet and =zlosing prices were unchangz2d to 3% lower. danuary 217 Mdaren 218 May 227 July 2.38. The demand for refined is still limited and prices were unchanged at 920 0530 fer fine 2ranulated Re find sugar futares were withour trans- actions, closing unchanged at five poinis net higher. January, March and May closed at 5.30 bid Lahore, British {ndia, Dec. 4th. —Lala Lajpat Rai, the Nationalists leader, who in August presided over a meeting which passed vesolutions not to welcome the Prince of Wales on his visit "dia, was arrested here today while conduct- ing a political meeting. Constaotinople, Dec. 3rd,—Yussuf Ke- mal, the Turkish Nationalist Foreign Minister, has sent to the Allied ligh Commissioners, who have been endeav- ouring to secure peace between Greece and the Nationalists, a note stating that Tuifey is anxious to become a peace in- stifment, that she does not desire to pl.ong the struggle, which is merely a df ensive one, and expressing the hope +" 1t Great Britain and Italy may come terggs with Turkey by means of mutu- i concessions. The moment the Greeks accept a pact with the Natio:alists, Turkey will cease to be an obstacle to the conclusion of peace, adds the note. S but Turkey will insist on reparation, ¢ 4 the Greeks indulge in ‘‘unjustifiable dy vastation’’, Washington, Dec. 4th —The disarm ment conference is in recess until Wegl nesday, but for most of the deleggfles ~ there 1s no rest from the increasikly prominent informal consultationsf in which individuals and small grougp ex- change views on important phagls of . 7 5 the negotiations. For the presegk these interviews are concerned chigfly with collateral elements of the =ituation, while progress on the all important sub- ject of naval ratio awaits further word from Tokio. The Far Eastern discus- sions are to be resumed on Wednesday but it may be late in the week before the Japanese have received instruetions from their Government warranting a further step in the naval exchanges. The long delay 1n carvying forward tne naval discussions is explained by the time re- quired for the Japanese delegates to communicate with Tokio, as well as by the importance which the Japanese at- ta~h to the present stage of the negotia- tions. ILee ' " in Japanese circles here, that tne home officials coubtless will not desire to forward a definite statement of the National attitude until they have very thoroughly canvassed sentiment throughout Japan. The Jap- anese delegation yesterday declared be- fore the committee on Far Eastern ques- tions, that Japan has no intention at present of ‘‘relinquishing the import- ant rights she has lawfully acquired’”’ in Port Arthur. This decision, it was explained, was based on rights ac- quired from Russia, with the virtual consent of the United States, France, and Greéat Britain at the time of the formation of the International con- sortium. As to Kiaochoy the Japanese Govt has already declared on several occasions that they would restore thgt leased territory to China. The Cofg mittee nad listened to an exhaustjiie plea by Dr. Wellinzton Koo, -one of @@e Chinese de]egate\,‘ when the Fremgh delagation announced willingness on the part of their Government to release the terrvitory leased from China by tF Republic. The French delegatior