The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-20
PER|SHABLES ARE
 THE NIGHTMARE OF
 ALL FOOD DEALERS
SpoiIage and Breakage Have as Much to Do With Lines in Faces as Income Tax
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Profits from the sale of milk and milk products, bread and other bakery goods, poultry, grist and flour are rather conservative, upon compari- son of wholesale and retail prices.
 Spoilage, breakage and death, in the case of poultry, pile up large overhead on the books of merchants handling these commodities, leaving reasonable margin of profit for the retailer.
 Bread, on which the retailer makes two or three cents on an investment of eight or 12 cents, loses it's freshness. Every one has heard the adage abopt split milk Dairymen are always cognizant or this factor in reduction of their proflts
 Prices on the various commodities mentioned, both wholesale and retail. are given below.
 WHOLESALE
 Wholesale prices on bread and rolls are quoted as follows, by the American Bak- cries company: Bread, and 12 cents per loaf; biscuit, 12 cents per dozen; rolls, $ cents per dozen; cakes. and 12 cents each package cakes).
 Milk, buttermilk and cream prices are quoted DY the 0lNy 0ItdInSIy COihPehS Inc as follows, by M. G. Bardwell manager: Milk (bulk), 65 cents per gal lon; milk in bottles, 60 cents per gal lon; buttermilk, in bulk, 30 cents per gal lon; single cream, 50 cents per quart: o0 per cent cream, 65 cents per quart
 Flour at wholesale is quoted by sew eral firms, the price ranging about the same for all Quotations from Plosser- Knecht Flour and Grain company are as follows: Flour, ss.75 to $i2.50 per bar rel self-rising flour, s10 to s1o.5o per barrel.
 w. M. Cosby Flour and Grain com pany quote as follows: Flour. s9.5o to $l2.25 per barrel
 P. P. Baker quotes as follows: Flour, s10.5o to s12.25 per barrel; self-rising flour, $i0.50 to S11.50.
 The Bell-Rogers Produce company quotes poultry as follows: Hens. 90 cents per pound chickens, 60 cents per pound; roosters. IA cents per pound
 Grist is quoted by wholesale grocers at g. 40 per hundred pounds.
 RETAIL
 Retail prices of milk, as announced by the City Creamery company, are: Sweet milk in bottles. 10 cents per pns' buttermilk. cents per pint; single cream. 60 cents per quart; 30 per cent cream, 85 cents per quart.
 Morris Cohen, grocer, 730 Sixteenth street, north: Flour. best grades, sl6o for 24-pound sack. Other grades at $l45 and s155 for A-pound sacks. Condensed milk, Pet brand large size, IA cents Small size, cents. Loaf bread. 10 cents a loaf Rolls, 10 and 12 cents a dozen. Gfts, cents a pound. Capital Park Grocery company, corner of Seventh avenue and Nineteenth street north: Flour, best grades $1.65 and N.70. Other grades at from s1.f5 to S1.6o A- pound sack. Condensed milk, Carnation brand, IA cents a can. Same brand, small size cents. Bread, 10 cents a loaf Grits 5i5 cents a pound. Frank Canepa, grocer, Seventh avenue and Nineteenth street, north: Chickens, 90 and 35 cents pound Flour $1.63 for a 24-pound sack. Canned milk, large size, 14 cents; small size, cents. Bread, 10 cents a loaf. Grist, 6 cents a pound, Hnl's Cash Grocery. No. 21, 1890 Fourth avenue, north, A. M. Black, manager Flour. 24-pound sack. $1.5O to s1.75 bread, 16-ounce loaf S1a cents; grist. cents d | pound
 Parkers Cash grocery, 1924 Fourth ave- | nue. north, w. Y. Parker, manager: Flour, A-pound sack. $l.5o to $1.75; grist, cents a pound.
 | Piggly Wiggly. No. 1, 9o1s Fourth ave- nue. north. M M. Magnus. manager Flour, 24-pound sack. sl.35 to $1.SO; bread 16-ounce loaf. S1a to 13 cents; grist, cents pound.
 White Star market, 1929 Fourth avenue north, H. K. Benners, manager; Hens, 35 and 40 cents a pound; fryer. 50 and GO cents a pound.