Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-27
INCREASES
SHOWN IN PRICE Of
FOOD AND CLOTHING

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The fol-
lowing statement, presenting COM
parative statistics showing the rise
or decline in prices of retail and
wholesale food al Il other commodities
as reported by fifty leading Amer
lean cities, has been issued by the
Bureau Of Labor Statistics, United
States Department Of Labor:
According to reports received by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the United States Department of La
Dor from the retail dealers in fifty
cities, the ay ,ge family expend
Iture for food was two per cent Ugh
err on january Is. 1920, tl1an-on De-
cember Is. 1919. The cost in De-
ce1nber was 90 per cent higher than
it had been in any previous M nth
These figures show an increase of
nine per cent since January, 1919,
and an increase OF 1O4 per cent since
January. 1913. The comparisons are
based on the average retail prices OF
the following articles, weighed ac-
cording to the consumption of the
average family: Sirloin steak, round
steak, Id roast, chuck roast plate
beef, pork chops, bacon, ham, lard,
hens, flour, corn meal, eggs, butter,
milk, bread, potatoes, sugar cheese,
rice coffee and tea.
Since January, 1919. monthly re-
tail prices OF food have been secured
for forty-four food articles. During
the month from December Is, 1919,
to January Is, 1920, twenty-nine OF
the forty-four articles of food for
which prices were secured in 1919
INCREASED as follows: Cabbage, thir-
ty-three per cent; potatoes. twenty
six per cent, graduated sugar,
twenty-three or cent; onions, eleven
per cent; lamb and rolled oats, eight
per cent, each; hens, seven per cent;
plate beef, six per cent; flour, five
per cent; sirloin steak. rib roast,
chuck roast, bread and cream and
rice, two per cent, each; ham, .evap-
GRATED milk, macaroni, baked beans,
tea, coffee and bananas, one per cent.
each. Bacon, nut margarine, cheese
and crfsco each increased less than
five-tenths Of one per cent.
The eleven articles which decreased
in prieeS were: Strictly fresh egGs,
eight per cent; butter, five per cent;
lard and canned tomatoes, three per
cent each; pork chops, storage eggs
and oranges, two per cent, each; fresh
milk, canned corn, canned peas and
prunes, one per cent, each.
Prices remain unchanged for oleo-
margarine, corn menl, corn flakes
and navy beans.
Changes in One Yea
During the year period, January,
1919, ito January. 1920, twenty-five
[ the forty-two articles for which
prices were secured on both dates
increased as follows: Onions, 120
cent; potatoes, siXty--nine per cent;
graduated sugar, sixty-five per cent;
raisins, fifty three per cen canned
salmon, sixteen per cent; crisco,
thirteen per cent; cream of wheat
and bananas, eleven per cent; oleo-
margarine and strictly fresh eggs,
ten per cent, each; bread, eigh, per
cent; fresh milk and corn meal, six
per cent, eacf hens and butter, five
per cent. each; evaporated milk and
storage eggs, four per cent, each;
lard, two per cent; and lamb nd tea,
one per cent, each. Articles which
decreased in price during the year
were: Eavy beans. eighteen per cent:
plate beef, sixteen per cent; bacon,
fourteen per cent; canned tomatoes,
eleven per cent; chuck roast and,
baked beans. ten per cent, each;
pork chops, eight per cent; ham and
canned corn, six per cent; round steak
five per cent; rib roast, per
cent; cheese and canned peas. two
per cent, each; and sirloin steak,
nut margarine and oranges, one per
cent, each; The price of cornflakes
was the same as in January, 1919.