New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-23
FOOD COST TO BE LOWER
Better Conditions Next WINTER,
Commission Man Says.

The first nip OF real fall weather thar
chilled III, city yesterday brought With Il
suggestions of the real cold days 10 come
To different people the thought OF WINTER
suggested different things. The average
man perhaps. thought Of the coal hill ana
the winter overcoat reposing In the moth
balls. Among the other things his wife
thought OF were the prices which com
modities. such as butter and eggs, would
reach in January. Last winter eggs were
almost as valuable as the output OF the
tabled goose. Butter. too. became worth
nearly as much ms the metal II resembles
I'm color. Therefore. just to set the mlnd
Of the housewife a ease The Tribune yes
terday sought an interview with one OF the
best posted men in the New YORK com
modify market What he told reporter
was reassurins.
From the present outlook a scarcity
Of commodities and the high prices accom-
panying them. such ~ we experienced last
year. do not seem imminent SAID
Charles ". Vanneman. manager Of large
wholesale butter and egg house "Condi-
lions are very different this year from
last. and the cost Of living throughout the
winter should be far less.
This has been good year for the
farmer" he continued. and crops have
been above the general average. There
are plenty Of potatoes. there liz a largo
corn and wheat crop and plenty OF pastur-
age This all means that the butter re-
ceipts at the New York warehouses will be
heavy from now until late fall"
Although butter at present is rather
high in price for this season of the year
there has been a falling or during the
last week Tuesday night the closing
price on the wholesale exchange was 81
cents while toward the end of the week
IL declined 10 2eI. cents pound.
a report Of the butter on hand in thirty
nine- warehouses in New York issued Sep
tember ! shows a total Of 64,s25.000
pounds. on September /. 1911. report
published by the same warehouses showed
only 5S.9s7.000 pounds. The difference
between these figures-1i. 900 pounds
means. Mr. Vanneman said, that butter
will be lower in price this winter. Such
surplus at this time Of the year points
toward good market conditions, ne de-
clared.
Eggs. too. ere in abundance, according
TO the warehouse report. there being at
the present time some 3.19S.0OO cases on
hand. a total Of nearly 2oO,0 cases moro
than last year. Eggs, like butter, are
trihe higher than they usually are in Sep
tember but that is said 10 be due wholly
10 poor conditions in the spring. The way
the commodities have been pillng up in
the warehouses lately is reassuring TO the
consumers. VINO Mr.. Vanneman says. need
not look for cXorbitant prices again this
winter
Meat is still high in price, but indica-
tons do not point toward It's soaring any
higher, FOR the present at least
Reports from New Jersey yesterday pro-
claimed successes with the potato crops
that quite offset the disappointing results
" year ago. The yield In Pennsylvania
and New York was said TO be equally
favorable. An unaccountable scarcity OF
potato bugs and the absence in degree
Of black rot is said 10 be mainly response
bic for the unusually heavy yield
The consumer IS beneilting by the plcn-
tiful supply Of "spuds." Seventy-nve cents
20 81 is the price asked for a bushel ~
the tuDers in small quantities. while larger
cousignments are sold at a lower price