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BOAKD OF AGRICULTUKE. [Pub. Doc. 



The price agreed upon between producer and wholesaler 

 is a theoretical figure, called the Boston price. There is a 

 scale of discounts from this price, varying according to the 

 distance from the city, so that, when the Boston price is 

 agreed upon, each producer, knowing the belt or zone in 

 which he lives, can get at the price that he will receive. 

 This Boston price has been for several years as follows : — 



1886, 

 1887, 

 1888, 

 1889, 

 1890, 

 1891, 

 1892, 



Summer 



(Cents 



per Can). 



30 

 30 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 33 

 33 



Winter 



(Cents 



per Can). 



36 

 36 

 38 

 38 

 36 

 37 

 37 



1893, 

 1894, 

 1895, 

 1896, 

 1897, 

 1898, 

 1899, 



Summer 



(Cents 



per Can). 



33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 32 

 32 



Winter 



(Cents 



per Can). 



37 

 37 

 37 

 35 

 35 

 34 

 34 



The decline in 1898 and 1899 is only a paper one. The 

 scale of discounts from the Boston price was decreased for 

 those years, so that the net to the farmers Avas unchanged. 



