PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS. 



June 1 



July 7 



August 10 



September 10 



October 18 



November 18 



December 19 



January 12 



February 10 



March 6 



April.... 8 



May 4 



June 2 



INDEX NUMBERS .OF WHOLESALE PRICES 



FIVE YEAR AVERAGE l9tO-!4- = !0O 



Fig. 1. — Wholesale prices in the "United; States for 130 years. 



Table II. — Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States, August, 1909, to Ju'y, 



1914=100} 



Year. 



Jan- 

 uary. 



Feb- 

 ruary. 



March. 



April. 



May. 



June. 



July. 



Au- 

 gust. 



Sep- 

 tember. 



Oeto- 



ber. 



Novem- 

 ber. 



Decem- 

 ber. 



1900... 



84 



85 



85 



85 



84 



83 



83 



83 



82 



82 



S3 



83 



1901... 



82 



81 



81 



81 



81 



81 



82 



83 



S3 



83 



83 



83 



1902.,. 



83 



83 



83 



84 



85- 



86 



86 



88 



85 



87 



87 



87 



1903... 



88 



88 



87 



87 



85 



86 



85 



86 



86 



85 



85 



84 



1904. . . 



85 



86 



86 



86 



85 



85 



85 



85 



85 



85 



85 



86 



1905... 



86 



87 



86 



86 



85 



86 



87 



89 



88 



89 



90 



90 



1906... 



91 



91 



91 



91 



91 



92 



93 



93 



93 



93 



95 



96 



1907... 



97 



97 



97 



97 



97 



98 



99 



99 



99 



99 



97 



95 



1908... 



95 



94 



93 



93 



92 



92 



92 



93 



92 



92 



92 



93 



1909... 



94 



94 



94 



94 



94 



95- 



96 



96 



97 



98 



99 



100 



1910... 



100 



100 



101 



100 



99 



99 



99 



100 



99 



99 



98 



98 



1911... 



97 



97 



97 



97 



96 



97 



98 



99 



98 



98 



98- 



98 



1912... 



99 



99 



100 



102 



102 



102 



102 



102 



102 



102 



102 



102 



1913... 



102 



102 



102 



102 



101 



101 



10.2 



103 



103 



103 



103 



102 



1914... 



102 



101 



101 



99 



102 



101 



100 



103 



104 



102 



102 



101 



1915... 



100 



102 



101 



101 



102 



101 



103 



103 



100 



103 



104 



107 



1916... 



112 



113 



116 



118 



120 



121 



122 



127 



130 



136 



146 



149 



1917... 



153 



158 



163 



174 



184 



188 



189 



190 



186 



184 



186 



185 



1918. . . 



189 



190 



190 



193 



193 



197 



203 



208 



212 



209 



211 



210 



1919. . . 



207 



201 



205 



207 



210 



212 



223 



233 



225 



228 



235 



243 



1920... 



253 



254 



257 



270 



276 



275 



268 



258 



248- 



230 



212 



193 



1921... 



181 



171 



165 



157 



153 



151 





























1 Index numbers as published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics converted to a 5-year 

 basis. The average for July for the five years ending with July, 1914, is called 100. Similarly the average 

 for other months for five years preceding the war is 100. 



Note. — Some data are published with 1890-1899 as a base and some with 1913 as a base. With 

 1890-1899 as a base 1913 is 135.2. All figures with 1913 as a base are converted to the 1890-1899 base by 

 multiplying by 135.2. The 5-year averages before the war are then as follows: January, 132.4; February, 

 132.4; March, 132.9; April, 132.8; May, 133.1; June, 132.2; July, 132; August, 131; September, 132; October, 

 132.2; November, 132.3; December, 132.5. Figures for each month on the 1890-1899 base are divided by 

 the above numbers to get the table as given above. 



