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were engaged in the harvesting of grain, and the urban populations had to wait for regular 

 rations of potatoes until the digging of potatoes could again be resumed ..." 



Measures Relating to the Production and Sale of Vegetables and Fruit. "The 

 retail prices for fruit reached unheard-of heights during the summer of 1916. The growers' 

 prices were high, in extenuation of which the high cost of fertilizers, cultivation, picking, 

 and packing was adduced. The maximum prices first set were low. Then the growers 

 refused to pick. The prices were raised, and thereupon green fruit was sent to the market. 

 The people were encouraged to put up fruit by sterilization by heat and with saccharine; 

 but the housewives were not inclined to experimentation. Thereupon the war nutrition 

 office confiscated the entire crop of early apples and plums, supplied the sugar, and had 

 them converted into jam." 



Example of Agricultural Advertising to Create Demand and Increase 

 Consumption. (Printed in American Newspapers, fourth week in July, 1919. 

 Republished by the American Meat Packers' Association. Reprinted from 

 New York Tribune, July, 23, 1919.) 



"There is Now Plenty of Beef and Lamb for Everybody. At the present price levels 

 these are the cheapest of the meat foods. It is now possible to advise the American people 

 that it is no longer necessary to conserve beef and lamb. Right now, there is plenty of these 

 meats for everybody and this will be the situation for many months to come. Here are 

 the reasons: 



"1. Demobilization of our armies has gone ahead so rapidly that they now require 

 very little beef and lamb. 



"2. England and the other European countries no longer look to us for their 

 beef supplies. 



"3. When war was declared the American live stock raiser started to produce more 

 meat. The result has been a large increase in live stock production. 



"Therefore, you may now buy beef and lamb and buy freely. 



American National Live stock Association. 

 National Wool Growers' Association. 

 Cattle Raisers' Association of Texas. 

 Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association of 



Iowa. 



Kansas Live stock Association. 

 Southern Cattlemen's Association. 

 Panhandle and Southwestern Stockmen's 



Association. 



Nebraska Stock Growers' Association. 

 Missouri Live stock Feeders' Association. 



Illinois Live stock Association. 

 Indiana Cattle Feeders' Association. 

 West Virginia Live stock Association. 

 Wyoming Stock Growers' Association. 

 Montana Stock Growers' Association. 

 California Cattlemen's Association. 

 Colorado Live stock Association. 

 Idaho Cattle Growers' Association. 

 Arizona Cattle Growers' Association. 

 New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association. 

 Cattle Raisers' Association of Oregon." 



Extreme Prices of Wheat, Corn and Oats. The following table is a 

 statement of the extreme prices in Chicago of Contract Wheat (spot) each 

 year for the period of fifty-two years, indicating the month in which such 

 prices were obtained. 



Wheat 



