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which would be only a little more than 1.9 cents a quart. 

 The above figures are quoted to give an idea of the varia- 

 tions commonly met with. 



In publications of the Federal Department of Labor * 

 may be found the average wholesale prices of milk in the 

 New York market for a series of years. Taking the average 

 for 1890-99, 2.55 cents (net price at shipping stations sub- 

 ject to a freight rate to New York of 26 cents per can of 40 

 quarts), as the base ( = 100), the relative price figures are 

 as follows: 1900-04, 108.8; 1905-09, 124.8; 1910-14, 139.3; 

 1915, 139.2. The actual average price in 1915 was 3.51 

 cents per quart at the stations shipping to New York and 

 3.76 at those shipping to Chicago. 



The average retail price of milk in certain representative 

 cities of the United States has been as follows: 1890-1900, 

 6.8 cents per quart; 1901-05, 7.1; 1906-10, 8.1; 1911-15, 

 8.9; December, 1915, 9.0.| The average retail price paid to 

 producers in the United States, derived from figures of the 

 Department of Agriculture, f was, for 1915, 7.1 cents per 

 quart; for 1916 (eleven months), 7.3. Comparisons showing 

 the smaller increase in the retail price of milk as compared 

 with certain other important food products have been given 

 in Chapter IV. 



* Bull. 81, Bureau of Labor; Bull. 181, Bureau of Labor Statistics; 

 Bull. 200, Bureau of Labor Statistics, July, 1916. 

 t Bull. 197, Bureau of Labor Statistics, June, 1916. 

 J Information by letter. 



