The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-13
At Same Time Wholesalers and
Producers Got Less.
Figures Taken From Two Gov.
ernment Canvasses.
INCREASES UP TO 8 CENTS
Wholesale Drop in Beef Not
Reflected at Store.
Investigation Was Made in Eff.
teen Principal Cities.

Washington, Sept. 12.-Retail food
prices went up during August and ars
still mounting despite the government
campaign to reduce the cost of living.
according to price figures collected bv
two government departments. cover
ing practically every section of the
country.
At the same time both wholesaIs
prices and the prices paid to prodpc-
ers nave dropped, the government re-
ports indicate. In fifteen princinal
citles. retail prices were boosted from
one-Ilfth TO cents per sales unit on
nam nam sirloln steak. butter, eggs, pota-
toes and pork chops, according ia nre-
lminary reports to the statistical IN
reau or the labor department for Aur-
ust. "e
Producers Got Less.
During the same month the level of
prices paid producers and farmers de-
creased "a per cent according 10 an
ment.
Decreases in wholesale prices for
August as compared with July are
SHOWN in reports to the bureau Of
markets, which found that:
Nholesale butter prices went down
nearly per cent in New York and
per cent in Chicago. Potatoes de-
creased 20 per cent in New York and
per cent on Chicago wholesale
markets
Good steer loin," dressed cuts. de-
creased u cents per pound in Boston,
cents In New York and nearly the
same in Philadelphia.
Good steer loin is the trade name
Tor the cut from which sirloin steak
comes. But the decrease of 3 cents
per pound wholesale was not reflected
in retail prices which. according to the
In hfT n 49,,
increase in the average price charged
by retailers there. The increase aver
aged slightly less than / cent per
pound.
Increases far outnumbered decreases
In retail prices for August. as com
pared with July, according to figures
collected by the labor department..
Table of Increases.
Retail price figures of the depart
ment are averages based on prices
charged by at least twenty-five deal
ers in each city canvassed. An in
crease of a fraction of a cent per sales
unit thus may represent an increase
Of several cents on the part of many
dealers. A comparison of averages
computed by the labor department for
some principal cities shows these In
creases for August:
Birmipgham-Ham i 5-1O cents per
pound; sirloin steak 2-5 cents; eggs,
Ito cents: potatoes 2-5 cents per pound.
Boston-Ham 10 cents per pound; sir
loin steak, lilo cents; butter / 2-5
cents; eggs, l lilo cents; potatoes, rs
cents per pound pork chops. cents.
Atlantn-Hnm 2 1-5 cents: butter Is
cents; eggs As cents; potatoes Clio cents
per pound; pork chops cents.
Chicago-Ham cent; siroin steak $40
cents; butter $40 cents: eggs 7-10 cents
potatoes 2-1O cents; pork chops cents.
Milwaukee-IIam 1-10 cents butter 2
40 cents; eggs 2 o-10 cents: potatoes
1-10 cents; pork chops G-1O cents.
Los Angeles-Hnm 4-10 cents; eggs 2-1O
cents: pork chops cents.
New Orleans-Ham 1 $40 cents: butter
9-10 cents; eggs $40 cents potatoes 5-iO
cent.
New York-Butter 7-1O cents; eggs
2-10 cents.
81. Louis-Butter 40 cents; eggs 1
$40 cents; potatoes 1 1-1O cents
San FranciscO-Eggs 8 $40 cents
Seattle-Ham 1-10 cents: butter 3 a-1O
cents; eggs . 6-10 cents; potatoes 2 1-IO
cents.