The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-11-15
Cost Of Living Viii
Soon Be Lower
Minneapolis Men Declare Big Crops
This Fall Has Caused Grand Re-
duetion In Expenses

An era of low living cost is foreseen
jim the indications the northwest had q
bumper crop this year. William M.
Regan of Regan brothers, bakers, said
that with cheaper flour, loaves of bread
would be larger. Some millers are
sangulne enough to believe that there
will be time shortly when bakers
will go back to the pound loaf now sold
for five cents, says the Minneapolis
Tribune.
Wholesale meat dealers say that if
the prospects now obtain are borne out
later, meat will be cheaper because
feed will be cheaper. Poultry, eggs
and dairy products will experience
similar decreases in price to the con-
sumer.
Speaking of the cost of flour, H. S.
Helm of the Russell Miller Milling COM
pany said because of the magnificent
prospects of the growing crop wheat
prices have already worked down 20
cents bushel in few months. In
consequence, flour prices are 65 cents
to 80 cents barrel lower than few
months ago.
''If farmers have favorable weather
for harvesting and threshing and this
crop is saved in good condition for early
market, wheat and flour prices would
naturally work to lower levels and it is
now practically assured that wheat and
flour will be much cheaper than for
two years"
But the cheaper -four and cheaper
bread will not be large factor in the
decrease in the cost of living. Bread
is the cheapest thing on the table, and
it is to live stock that the country must
look for cheaper food that will make a
difference. 1t is said by millers that
mill feed may not experience decrease
in price even though wheat is much
cheaper. The price of the by-products
of wheat depends on the demand in the
dairy sections of New England. The
by-products are used to large extent
there, and ut this time no miller
was found who could venture an opinion
whether prices would be up or down.
j. j. Swanford of Armour & Co.,
regarded as one of the best authorities
in the northwest on conditions in the
wholesale and retail meat market, said
that if the present promise of large
corn crop were fulfilled there would be-
little doubt that there would be de-
crease in the wholesale and retail price
Of meat.
If great deal of stock is raised on
the cheap food, it will be possible to re-
duce cost of meat. This decrease,
however. will not be noticeable this
year, but next year. The price ofpork
will drop sooner than the price of beef.
Hogs increase and are fattened in much
shorter period than cattle and sheep.
The effect on the price of dairy pro-
ducts is obvious. Farmers who have
not beensa able to get feedsat low prices
have sold their cattle to the packer
rather than bear the expense Of feeding
them. If the herds in the United
States are .ncreaseu anu 1ne n.mDer u
catt'e On iar,ns ate - 'nc.esst;u on scr
count OF tne cneapness oi io9oer, tne
pr1ce OF Dutter ana eggs snould De
mucn lower. U
Inc pr'ncipie appheu 20 i've stock
may De appliea % poultly; ralmers s
WI! oe aple - n'aA. le:u.al 11s'.s.s =
OF tnelr chicken ,s.slns lns.esu =. =.
lowing Y 70 De : Mt or mlss 'nuustly'
q L. years pss. Wnen tne cal.AenS
nave peen io1ceu - iotsse iol '1'enl-
The decrease in the price Of living
along tne 'lnes ,ntllss'tu' ; lo"'sse,. 8. .
dependent upon the crop. Accorolng
to the Northwestern Miller the Minnea-