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continued to 16.6 cents in 1919, and 17.1 cents in 1930, 
a rise of 330 to 350 per cent of the 1913 pre-war price. 
In 1931 the lowering price level and the still somewhat 
limited export market brought the average price of dried 
apples down to 11.1 cents per pound, approximately 157 per 
cent of the pre-war price, which when compared with the com¬ 
modify price index for 1931 enabled the producer to purchase 
about the same quantity of other goods with a pound of dried 
apples as in 1913. The price was higher but the purchasing 
power about the same . 
