Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1909 — MEAT PRICES GIVEN ANOTHER BOOST. [ARTICLE]

MEAT PRICES GIVEN ANOTHER BOOST.

The packers have made another advance in the price of all dressed meats to the retailers of 20 per cent all around. They say the advance is made necessary by the recent wheat deal and the resultant advances in the prices of all grain.< Farmers and live stock men have taken advantage of this and ask higher prices for stock on the hoof, the packers say, bnt the retailers deny this and say there is unquestionably an agreement between the big packers. As proof they point to the fact that all the packers have made exactly the same increases to retailers.