The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-12
Campaign To Reduce H. c. L.
Already Shows Effect.
Comparison With July % Costs
Evidences Marked Decline.
SPUDS DOWN Soc TO S3.4O
Meat Cuts Found in 1O7 Com
pariSOns Out of 1S2.
Proportion of Vegetable ana
Fruit Reductions Greater.

Washington, Aug. 12-wholesale
food dealers have begun to make big
reductions in prices of vegetables.
dressed meats and fruits. government
reports showed today.
With the campaign to reduce the
high cost of living in full swing. COM
parison of quotations of July % with
those of August IL showed a marked
decline. which set in after the attack
on unjustified prices began.
Spuds in Big Fall.
Potatoes have been cut from so
cents to s3.40 a barrel since July 2S.
according to quotations collected by
the bureau of markets.
Slashes in the prices of dressed
meats range up to cents a pound for
pork loins.
The cutting also has been extended
to beef, the figures showed.
Big drops are noticeable in quota
tions for Boston, New York. Philadel-
phia and Chicago. A few price in
meat. The figures indicate the down
ward trend is general and that in
creases are exceptional
Meat Prices Dropping.
For meats. 1872 comparisons were
made of quotations collected by the
bureau of markets yesterday and on
July 2S. In 1O7 comparisons price
while in rs comparisons there was no
change.
In vegetables and fruits, the pro-
portion of price cuts was greater. Cuts
numbered twenty-five and increases
only three, while the no-change COM
parsons were limited to one.
Some vegetables and fruits that
have depressed IN price are onions.
which dropped 65 cents a hundred
weight in New York. and SO cents in
Chicago; peaches declined so cents
carrier of six baskets in New York.
25 cents in Baltimore and IS cents in
Chicago.
Melons Show Decline.
watermeIons dropped from 500 to
$3.50 per carload in New York and
Chicago. Cantaloupes per crate of 40
melons dropped from $3.50 to S2.75
in New York; 81 to S1.75 in Balti-
more and so cents to rs cents in Chi
cago.
Dealers in pork loins have made big
cuts in prices charged retailers in Bos-
ton, New York and Philadelphia.
| Loins weight fourteen pounds or bet
ter sold for from 80 to 80 cents per
pound in Philadelphia July rs. Yes
| terday they brought from 25 to 27
cents a pound. showing a reduction
| Of cents per pound.
! Wholesale dealers in loins have put
| down prices from 1 to 4 cents in
1 Philadelphia and slightly less in New
| York.
| But Chicago dealers in loins are put
| ting prices up. Best grade loins
weighing from to 10 pounds have
been boosted from 3 to 4 cents per
pound.
Beef Prices Also Down.
Medium steer cuts showed price re-
ductions ranging from y to cents in
Boston, New York. Philadelphia and
| Chicago in comparisons of bureau quo
tations for July % and yesterday.
! Medium steer cuts yesterday sold In
New York from 16 to 90 cents per
pound; in Boston. IS to 20 cents; Phil
adelphia, the same, and Chicago, II II
to 20 cents.
The markets bureau classifies beet
cuts as coming from steers. cows and
bulls Grades within these classified
tions are referred to as choice, good
medium and common.
Common grades in all classifications
show the biggest price cuts in the
wholesale market, bureau officials
pointed out.
Lamb Drops Four Cents.
| Common grades of lamb yesterday
showed a cut of cents per pound In
New York market compared with July
2S. Medium, a little better grade
meat. was cut cents, while the best
grade choice" cost from 4 to cents
more. In Boston choice, good and
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