The New York herald., 1922-01-05
FOODS TAKE BIGGEST
DROP Since WAR TIME
Almost All Staple Articles
Found Lower BY Shop
ping Housewives.
EGGS NEAR 1914 LEVEL
Decline Is Cents a Dozen i'll
Week, While Fancy But
ter Goes to 45 Cents.
MEAT ALSO HAS A TUMBLE
Retail Poultry Costs Fall
Eggs From China, Butter
From Denmark.
EGGS NEAR 1914 LEVEL
MEAT ALSO HAS A TUMBLE

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Housewives who went out yester-
day TO buy food discovered that prices
had declined more than in any one
day since they began to come down
from the highest war levels. Market
reports showed that the drop in prices
OF virtually AL staple articles was
sweeping enough to make a substau-
tsl difference in the cost of living.
The egg market. for example. is
tower than at this season for seven
years. Eggs are almost down as far
as they were in January, 1914, though,
OF course, they are higher than they
were last summer. Butter costs third
less than a year ago; coal has declined
since January /, and the five cent loaf
which appears to have shown the
way to all other articles in this most
recent reduction-llas found it's way
back to many grocery shelves for the
first time since the war started prices
soaring.
An open winter so far, coupled with
the reduction of taxes and transporta-
fion costs, is responsible for much or
the decline. United States weather con-
iiticns likewise have led the farmers
TO feed grain to their cattle. increasing
Tire flow OF milk anc ultimately bringing
down the price of butter. Farmers also
are raising more poultry, according to
the food experts, and this means lower
eggs and pullets.
Eggs Drop 15 Cents I'm "a Week.
Eggs are 26 cents dozen cheaper to-
day than a year ago. The price has
dropped rs cents in the last week. West
ern eggs were quoted at wholesale yes
terday at 30 and AZ cents q Dozen. Last
Tuesday they were 90 and 56 cents and
year ago they were CT and 6S cents in
the wholesale market, according to reports
Of p. @. Foy, food expert. The egg
market Is almost as low as in 1914. The
feiail price for Western eggs yesterday
was As and 4s cents. for candled eggs
IS ceiits and for strictly fresh S5 cents.
Fancy table creamery butter sold al
retail yesterday at As cents pound
and other grades at ~ and 43 cents a
pound. There has been a decrease in
the last ten days of from to 8 cents
in tho price Of butter. Creamery butter
priced in the wholesale market yester-
atN dN % anu ~ tCltS q pOu0Q SOlu al
ST cents year ago. Cheese Is cents
pound lower than last week, but thi.
market continues steady.
Sixteen ounce loaves Of bread are sell
Ing in some OF the chain stores for 6
cents and in one of the big department
stores for cents. Another chain store
head announced the price of its four
teen ounce loaf as cents.
Commissioner Edwin j. o'Malley o.
the Department OF Farms and Market.
said that the chain stores were always
The flrst 10 reflect 3 fall in prices be.
cause of their cash and carry system
The consumption Of bread bought from
the manufacturers has fallen OF 40 pei
cent, according 60 the Commissioner
who attributes this drop 20 the decline
in the price or bread ingredients. which
has encouraged the housewife to make
bread az home.
The average drop in the price OF Goa
paid by the consumer to-day Is 90 cents
q compared with the price before Jan.
nary 1. Stove and nut coal are s131C
e ton, compared with 1880 last week
egg coal Is Sass compared witt
si3.o5 Labor is extra. amounting tc
about 90 cents ton. The price dropped
recently at the mines, n was explained
This was due 20 the mild weather and
with the lifting Of the war tax os pei
cent. cIlu AnE TRANSPORTATION Tlf
cost TO tho dealer IS less. The full ef.
feet of these conditions will no, be felt
IN the retail market for ten days. &C
cordng 20 coal authorities.
Prime steers are as low as they wer,
before the war, one meat expert stated
1Te added that yesterdays prices touched
The bottom figures of 1913 and 1914
and in some instances were even lower
Fetal prices are little higher than be.
sf.
~ aers cost - and IS cents a pound
TIE same grade went 10 TO 25 aud q
e MS round during the war. n 8
woman viii chop for her meat int.eac
% buying from IN expensive butchei
en- wiii find the prices lower than n
..ors. said This authority.
Reports for i9ei show that New Yori
city had 600 more carloads or live poul
t-v than IN 1920. The quantity o
dressed poultry shipped w was larger II
1927 b. 8G. s25. 500 pounds. And retail
poultry prices are lower.
Next week will see q shipment or egg
from China and large quantity Of but
ter from Australis. New Zealand an
Denmark Tho arrival 81 seventeen car
loads OF cauiiaower yc-terday moTnin
caused p decline in the price, the aver
ngC crate selling Tor S2.21. The frs
carload NJ spinach from South Carolin
brought from 81 % $3.50 n barrel Tcxs
spinach. the State Department ot Farm
nnd Markets states ~,.-tu at $3.50 an
sf.75 a hushnl hamper. -Four carload
or celery from upstate brought from :
10 80 for two-third crate. whilo thre
carloads ~ California celery IN lare
crates went at from $3.50 10 $3.50
crate. string beans were plentiful an
rho price declined. The onion. apple an
white cabbage markets were stead
rwo steamships arrived by way Of III
Tnnana Canal. bringing 10000 boxes
Northwcstcrn apples. $500 boxes
cvaporated and dried fruits. 1000 box,
al lemons and $500 cases OF came
fruits.