The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-09-14
GENERAL COST or
| LIVING NOT TO GO
| HIGHER IN WINTER
kupar, Coffee and Potatoes Are
soaring-Increase in Other
Things Not Expected.

NV York, Sept. 12.--While thous-
IDS are starving In China, and
rance is being torn with riots in
brotest against the high cost of food
mere is renewed attention in this
Country to the fact that sugar has
osnhed it's highest point In IL years;
hat coffee Is soaring, and potatoes
70 selling as high as $1.10 a bushel in
he field. In view Of this, household
re are asking themselves:
"yVill this winter see a recurrence OF
no conditions of 1909-10, when the cost
: living reached its apex and declined
iowly only after many so-called boy
otis against meat and other high
pricer commodities were declared
throughout the land?''
To this question economic experts
cen here today answer mo-" Prices
rill be higher, they say, in some in
tances above those OF last winter.
Inf they add that the man who sets
ia table with plain every day fare.
wedding costly brands and near lux
lres, may await the approach of cold
Weather without undue anxiety.
Better Than Last Year.
II is pointed out that. generally
peaking, with the exception Of coffee.
eugar, potatoes and a few canned
Vegetables, the present month of Sep
lions more favorable to the consumer
|han the case a year ago. On Sep
(emher 8, mess pork was quoted at
10 a barrel, wholesale. as against $24
bn the same date I'm 1910. The whole
ale price Of ham is little more than
rs cents a pound. as compared with
8 cents in the early fall of last year;
Western lard is selling at a fraction
more than 8 cents, as against more
H.
butter and eggs are both comparative
N reasonable and a few cents cheaper,
Fetal, than in last September.
Flour of good quality is selling az
lowest retail prices at $5.95 a barrel,
khe same price that prevailed at this
lime last year, and bacon may be had
n some stores for 20 cents a pound,
Is against 23 and 25 cents year ago.
The average family steak costs
lbout 2S cents pound, as It did last
Sear, though experts say that with all
Feeding crops short 1t Is not unlikely
that beef will go higher as the win
Ter progresses.
q The cost Of poultry will be largely
determined by cold storage holdings.
Indications are that the shortage of
potatoes is serious. not only in this
country but in Great Britain and Ger
many In the fall of last year one
kOulu guy BOOu potdtOeS Ill the nelu
4or 55 cents a bushel Today the
brices range from IS cents to more
han 81. Canned peas, beans and to-
natoes also will be higher, but rice
remains cheap and unless there is a
marked advance in pork II Is argued
That the man Of slender means can
provide for his family without serious
ttrain.
Sugar and Coffee High.
Sugar and coffee are both phenom-
$nally high. but those who are study
ing the market predict that decreased
consumption, which invariably follows
! prohibitive advance, will soon restore
these two breakfast table necessities
10 more normal level. No. stand
brd Rio spot coffee brought 13% cents
pound, wholesale, in New York Sat-
brday, as against 10R cents a year
Ago, and the standard grade Of gran
plated sugar was quoted at go cents
pound, the highest level since July,
1899 Failure OF the European sugar
beet crop and poor prospects in Cuba
IRE given as the cause of the abrupt
|umpt in the sugar market 1t is
Utmost impossible to strike an intelli-
GENT average of the price to the con-
tumer, so much depending on the To-
tation Of the dealers store. The table
below of 25 standard commodities,
however. shows the prevailing whole
bale prices when the month OF Sep
Fember opened. The figures have
changed only slightly since.
Relative Prices.