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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Prices of Feeds and Poultky Products in Yeaks 1898 



AND 1913. 

 In periods of high cost of living, we are apt to think only 

 of the prices of articles that we buy for food, and give no 

 thought to the value of the raw material entering into those 

 articles. For instance, we hear people speak of the high price 

 of eggs, that the prices asked are beyond all reason, as they 

 can remember a few years back when eggs cost only half as 

 much as they do now. They naturally think that either the 

 producer or the middleman is filling his pockets at the ex- 

 pense of the consumer. 



Table 17. — Relative Rise in Price of Feeds and Poultry Products, 



1898 to 1913. 



Price of Feeds. 



Wholesale Phice per Ton. 



Feeds. 



Corn meal, . 



Gluten feed. 



Wheat middlings (flour). 



Wheat bran, 



$32 50 

 30 00 

 32 00 

 25 50 



Price of Poultry Products. 



Wholesale Price (Cents). 



November, 



November, 

 1913. 



Eggs, . 

 Dressed poultry. 



26-28 

 13-14 



59-60 

 20-22 



From this chart, showing a comparison between the price 

 of feeds and poultry products for the years 1898 and 1913, 

 we find that in 1898 com meal was selling at $17 per ton 

 and at present is $32.50; gluten feed, $17 and $30, respec- 

 tively; wheat middlings, $17 and $32, and wheat bran, $16 

 and $25.50. The prices for 1898 were taken from a bulletin 



