The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-02-22


prices Of food onmodities IN cities out
side Of Nec York are shoun in the fol-
lOcin9 special dispatches TO TIE Sun,
KANSAS CRY, Mo, Feb 2l.--Retail
prices of food IN Kansas City have been
Of some of the more largely used articles
OF food and their prices, taken from u
local retail stores advertisement:
Potatoes, 9ia pound basket. 80 cents :;
sugar cured ham, eel. cents pound {;
cream cheese. 80 cents a pound butter,
2s cents n pound: four pounds rice, %
cents; 81. pounds Chile beans % cents {:
forty-eight pounds flour, sass; three
pounds prunes. 25 cents one dozen cans
sugar corn. s1.20; oranges. % cents :,
dozen.
The price of canned goods has taken
a bound. One dozen cans OF condensed
milk costs sl.lo; hominy. 81 dozen
cans one dozen cans OF California
peaches, sl.65: one dozen cans pears,
$l.2O
Egx Boycott Is Carried Out.
Lemons are selling for 15 cents u
dozen. One pound of cocoanut costs IS
cents and fourteen ounce Jar of break
fast cocoa 30 cents. Tea II 40 cents IL
pound, while coffee ranges in price from
20 cents Il pound up
There seems TO be no limit to the price
of eggs. They are bringing ~ cents "A
dozen now and going up steadily. The
egg boycott instituted some months ago
has been carried out Ia some extent.
Fresh dressed chickens are selling FOR
.31a cents pound prime beef rib roast
is 90 cents a pound. Oleomargarine Is
listed at 35 cents II pound. Pancake
flour Is five cents IA pound and seven
pounds of corn meal bring rs cents. An
eighteen pound box OF soda crackers
sells for sl.53.
Assorted cakes sell for 81 a dozen
small packages and alvors bring %
cents half pint.
Prices Hixhest known In West.
MILWAUKEE. Wis, Feb. o1.--Prices
have reached the highest points ever
known in the West Potatoes sold to-
day at SO bushcl retail and even cold
storage eggs brought IS cents. while
fresh eggs were sold AZ retail for 60
cents.
Coal has reached sI4 a ton with al
most none even at that price and the
companies refusing to sell except to those
actually in immediate need. This !s Mil
waukee's condition in the cost az living
situation.
Here are some sample prices to-day
at wholesale as given by the market
reports of Commission Row:
Eastern apples. $3.50 to 1915 per bar
rel. Beans. 81. Cabbage. home grown.
IS per hundred. Onions. California. Slo
to sl3 per hundred. Rutabagas, $3.50.
Southern turnips, 81 to $3.50 per barrel
The potato price Is r cents n pound, as
compared with the : cent price in New
York. AS nearly as Milwaukee mer.
chants can estimate, this is about the
same difference IA in other foodstuffs.
Milwaukee. being close to the grower
has. however. about the cheapest food
stuffs In the country. Milk is selling at
s cents n quart
Due 10 Railroad COnRestiOu,
A study Of Milwaukee sentiment on the
Eastern situation is that the railroad
congestion IL almost entirely responsible
No flour is being received from the
Minnesota mills and local mills canno,
get their wheat. Retail prices In Mil
waukee vary widely from the quoted
Wholesale prices given in the foregoing
Retailers are selling on an average 90
per cent above the quoted wholesale
prices. which are for the standard grades
OF produce sold TO the average purchaser
The prices for fancy foodstuffs range
far higher. The club women who have
been maintaining boycott against some
of tho high priced foodstuffs declare
there is n difference of aJ per cent. ir
price between the same articles Of FOOD
in the cash and carry" stores and tn.
exclusive grocery establishments.