25 



Pkices of Feeds and Poultry Products in Years 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 

 ciin 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 expense 

 of the consumer. 



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



1898 to 1913. 



Corn meal, . 



Gluten feed, 



Wheat middlings (flour) 



Wheat bran, 



S17 00 

 17 00 

 17 00 

 16 00 



S32 50 

 30 00 

 32 00 

 25 50 



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 corn meal was selling at $17 per ton and 

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

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

 $2.5.50. The prices for 1898 were taken from a bulletin pub- 



