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tractor $500.00 



hay 300.00 



Total $800.00 



The same general method is used in avoiding ceiling prices 

 on potatoes. A shipment of potatoes is sold with a bunch of 

 horse-radish, which is then tossed back. A durable bunch of 

 horse-radish will serve to smooth a good number of such 

 transactions. In the market place it is practically certain that 

 somehow there will be a meeting of minds of buyer and seller, 

 in spite of the word of the law. 



Rationing coupons are traded back and forth by house- 

 wives despite rules against such activities. 



Accumulation of coupons becomes a problem for the re- 

 tailers, the jobbers, and the wholesalers. They are packaged 

 and transferred through the channels of trade without open- 

 ing the packages. Some of the packages are short of coupons, 

 but it is too laborious a job to count them. 



Wage ceilings are nullified by the simple process of paying 

 men for more hours than they work. Unable to pay higher 

 rates and unable to hold men at present rates, employers 

 give their men nine hours' pay for seven hours' work. 



Ceiling prices on early cabbage were established on a ham- 

 per basis. Formerly the hamper was filled with a "bulge" 

 pack. In the spring of 1943 the hamper was "flat"-packed 

 with lightweight small heads of cabbage. The ceiling price 

 per hamper was unchanged, but the price per pound rose. 



Formerly lettuce was trimmed and shipped largely in 

 crates of five to six dozen heads. The ceiling prices were set 

 on a crate basis. Since supply was short, trimming at produc- 

 tion points was dispensed with and the crates contained four 

 to five dozen. With fewer heads at the same ceiling, the con- 

 sumer paid twenty to twenty-five per cent more per head 

 than before the ceiling was established. 



One arm of the government establishes the conditions that 



