The Washington times., 1910-11-16
WILEY RIDICULES
DROP IN PRICES
Food Expert Declares Re
/ductiOn Is Only Scheme
ofTrustS.
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and apDreciably less than in November
OF last year
Inc decrease IN the price Of beef is
less marked, but the quality, espe-
elaIy in the cheaper grades, IS un
usually good.
With but two exceptions vegetable
prices where they have shifted at all
are lower and the price Of such staple
As potatoes and cabbage Is unusually
low for this season
This Information is the result Of a
careful canvass % the retail dealers IN
Center Market and in the whoIeSal.
houses along Louisiana avenue tOCa-
Many Of the older merchants, who
nave followed fluctuations in price for
many years, declared they saw in the
PRESENT break IN high prices all along
the line permanent relief from the
higher cost Of living IN the past few
years
Lowest for Three Years
The prices are lower than I have
seen them for the past three years, and
I believe they viii so even lower be
fore the midwInter increase, which US
uaIIy comes about January was the
comforting assurance OF q representa-
tive Of one large wholesale house close
~ II touch with the Chicago situation
as well as local conditions
me foundation toE thls prediction IS
me fact that all the storage warehouse
IN the country are full Rc2rs...
tlVeS OF the large Chicago commits
sion houses certified this statement L
Is impossible 10 put meat in Stors &
AT TINS Tune and therefore the fall
product OF hogs and lambs are b.
thrown upon the market in large
quantities than for many years
This condition, Il IS believed. will de
lay a drawing upon the storage StOc-
until later al the season than usual auF
VIII work 70 keep the prices down uni
vel tOwarE February instead Of Jan
uarys as in past seasons
Farmers Buying Cattle.
a peculiar condition prevails in ths
beef markets. II was expected that. T.
large corn crops would make for =
immediate lowering OF the price Of be-.
but this has not been the case. =
farmers have gone IN the cattle buyTu
business and they are outbiddinE n.
commission houses
The result Of this condition has
been that farmers have kept their
SCRUB cattle to fatten them instead Of
throwing them on the market The
peer Delnss sold now especially the
round steak and chuck r0asts, IS Of n
higher quality than that of several
seasons An ultimate falling of Of
beef prices is expected, but the de
crease Is not now so much marked as
the lower cost Of pork chops and
lamb cuts
Pork chops that brought % cents
one month ago are now selling for
dropped from so cents to q cents.
Shoulder that cost Is ceDtS q pound Ia
September can now be bought for /
cents Hams, already considered low
last month at y cents, can now be
bought for 20 cents
Too Many Pigs.
These prices range from TO 4
cents lower than that Of the same
time last year The decrease this fall
is attributed directly TO the abnOr-
maIIy high prices Of last year, whicl
started an unusual activity among
farmers in raising pigs It takes but
six months TO raise @ pig that can go
10 the market Therefore the market
this fall IS already feeling the result
OF the newly aroused interest IN hog
raising
Good Vegetable Season
4 good season is the explanation Of
fered for the low cost Of cabbage.
sweet potatoes, and Irish potatoes Gel
cry and Caulifiower are unusually low
this fall. and are likely 20 remain so.
according TO predictions IL the market
men. The only break IA the Iessened
string beans Dealers say these are
hard to get At any prize This is a.
1ributed to the recent storms through
the South which have practically de-
stroyed tese crops in the Dixie States
EGGS and butter hold out against the
general decrease No- IS there any hope
held out that these products VIII drop