Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1919 — BARNES REPORTS FALL IN PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS. [ARTICLE]

BARNES REPORTS FALL IN PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS.

Americans are eating more bread and less of the higher priced foods, the consumption of flour the last “seventy days showing an increase of 3,000,000 barrels, or 15 per cent over the same period last year, according to a statement whieh has been issued by Julius H. Barnes, United States wheat director. A fall in prices of other foodstuffs was reported by Mr. Barnes, who called attention to the fact that lard, which sold in Chicago at 25 cents a pound two months ago, now is bringing only 22 cents. Other edible oils, he said, “have shown “sharp declines in sympathy.” Condensed and evaporated milk, he reported, have not shown the usual fall tendency to advance.