Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-17
REDUCTIONS ON BEEF AT MANY
POINTS FROM TWO TO FIVE
CENTS A POUND; PoRk's AVE
RAGE DROP TWO AND A HALF.
DECLINE ON HOG
PRODUCTS Eel T HERE
MoRRELL 4 co. STATE THAT
HOGS HAVE BEEN SHOWN A
DOWNWARD TENDENCY FOR
SOME TIME.

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Chicago, Nov. 15.-Meat prices arr
[ tumbling all over the country, accord
Ing to reports received from various
centers. The reduction on beef runs
from two to five cents pound. Pork
| averages about two and one-half cents
decline. Butter and eggs, however,
show little or no reduction in price.
New York, Boston. and other eastern
cities note a fall in prices during the
past week. In the west the tendency
in all reports is toward lower prices.
In Chicago the packers have cut the
prices Of beef four to five cents and
pork two to three cents. Veal and
mutton are expected to follow soon.
Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, note
reduction of two to three cents in
all grades of meat and in poultry a
fall of the same proportion is re-
ported.
Milwaukee places the decline at ten
to twenty per cent below the price OF
meat last fall. Vegetables also share
the decline to the same extent.
Denver, St. Louis and Kansas City.
Denver reports a decline in poultry
Of five cents on turkeys and three
cents on chickens. Meat prices are
unchanged.
st. Louis and Kansas City report
price declines about the same as at
other places, with promise of
further falling off in the near future.
Bay City, Michigan, Is an exception,
in that lower prices are quoted on
hams and bacon. Other places re-
ported the prices on these classes un-
changed. The reduction Of the prices
of beef and fresh pork at Bay City
was smaller than the average of other
cities. At st. Paul the cut in beef
prices average one and 0ne-half cents
and on pork two cents.
Biz Drop in Detroit.
Four cents pound is the decline in
beef prices at Detroit; pork three to
five cents and poultry three to five
cents.
Omaha expects five cent decline
on all meats will be reached by Jan
uary. The present drop is prices is
about two cents.
Charles w. Armour, head Of the Ar
mour interests at Kansas City, said last
Saturday that there would be gradual
reduction in the prices of meat, espe-
cially pork, in all parts of the country.
At that time he stated that the reduc-
lions would be due to the increased !
number of cattle being shipped to the
various markets and that the cattle |
we're heavier and in better condition
han for several years
Sees Big Reduction.
.'The farmers have sorted the cattle
md seem to have raised them with a
view of getting them to the markets in
better condition than we have met with
or some time," he said. "This will
cause a reduction in the prices of meats
n all parts of the country"
During the past few weeks there has
,een agradual, although slight, change
n the wholesale prices Of beef and
pork. While these changes were not
sufficiently marked to cause any re.
luction in the prices to the consumer,
hey indicated that the prices to the re.
ailer would be lowered.
Price Declines in New York.
New York, Nov. 15.-The price Of
neat, both wholesale and retail, has
Undergone considerable reduction
he past week The wholesale price
# beef is down three to four cents and
he retail is of an average OF about
wo to three cents pound. Pork is
Iown four cents.