Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 225, 4 July 1919 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1919.

FOOD PRICES SHOW SIGNS OF STABILIZATION

Flour May Go Higher Sugar and Coffee Prices May Have Reached Level.

By WILLIAM R. SANBORN In the year 1914 Kansas produced more wheat than any state in the Union had ever, or has so far, produced in any year. This year the production of wheat in Kansas promises to exceed the 1914 output by 48 million bushels, the latest estimate putting the crop at about 230 millions of bushels, including 450,000 bushels of spring varieties. At $2 per bushel on the farm this would mean 1460,000,000 to the farmers, and they will get more than that at any country shipping point In the fctate. When one considers the vast harvest now in full tide in the northern tier of winter wheat states, and of the splendid promise of the spring wheat crop soon to follow, it Is hard to reconcile ourselves to paying $13 per barrel and up for flour, with no show for any material cut in price, possibly until a year from date, when the fovernment's price guarantee goes off watch. Wholesalers are paying $13 to $13.25 per barrel for car lots of fancy Minneapolis patent flour, delivered in New York. The retailer pays a profit on this, also charges a profit for handling bo you can do your own guessing as to what consumers pay for 24-lb sacks, but it will pretty close to $2 per sack, you may be sure. Bakers, however, never use these advertised fancy family flours, nor do they buy in small sacks. Baker's flour if packed in 140-lb. jute bags, and the name of the mill making the flour doesn't figure with them. All they ask is quality. Right now they can buy

first Spring Clears at $9.50 to $10 per

barrel; Spring Patents at $11.50 to $12, and Kansas Straights at $11.60

to $12. What is known as Winter Straight flour is ranging at $11.00 to

$11.25 in car lots, in seaboard cities.

We speak of seaboard cities for two

reasons: First, comparatively little milling is done in the east, and, sec

ond, because seaboard carlot prices

.ire export prices, practically. Consider then what this flour must sell at in Europe to pay freight, insurance and profit to the importers on the other side. To this cost add railway charges to the interior of the Continent and 'the profit of the retailer. You may be sure there is no cheap flour across the ocean except possibly In Belgium, which has been so liberally ftd by the generosity of the people of America that bread in Brussels is selling for less than it is in Richmond, a town surrounded with ten million bushels of wheat in harvest right now. World Is Sugar Hungry. Broadly speaking the whole world is sugar hungry. Meltings of raw suKar continue at capacity at all the refineries, but such is the insistent demand, both for home use and export, that all the refineries are sold far ahead. The situation is such that the refineries are now taking no export orders for delivery at the wharves before September. Two national boards are interested in the sugar problem the Shipping

Board and the Sugar Equalization Board, and wt are mighty lucky that these boards are still in action. If they were not there is no teling how much sugar we should be able to obtain, nor at what price. The Shipping Board allots the vessels, and the Equalization Board buys the raw sugars which it allots to the refiners at a set price, and also equalizes the price of cane and beet sugars in the various parts of the country, according to distance and freight. It must not be understood that we are shipping no sugar abroad, we are, about 12,000 tons per week, on orders taken months ago, and orders boked during past two weeks are for delivery in September and later. The home demand for sugar is the largest in our history, as is also the output of the refineries, now running at over 100,000 tons of refined sugar per week. Merchants are buying heavily because consumers are laying in supplies for fall canning, as well as for taking care of berries, cherries, etc. This demand will slacken later. Uncle Sam controls the 6Ugar crop of Porto Rico and has contracted with the Cuban government at a set price

for our needs of Cuba, after a lot of

diplomatic work and the settlement of a strike of Cuban sugar mill workers and field labor on the plantations. California refines a lot of sugar, which is received from the Hawaiian Islands, the first of this years' crop arriving on June 12th. The Cost of Coffee. The advance in coffee seems to

have come to a halt, and it is high I time. Fine coffees, in cans, are sell-1 ing at tip top prices, higher than in J our recollection, or of that of the old- j est inhabitant. Ordinary can and

package coffees that formerly retailed at 25 cents per pound are now costing retailers 43 to 45 cents per pound and are bringing 50 cents and up at retail., A great many consumers, heads of ordinary sized families, have been buying from 25 to 50 pound lots of coffee, thinking it economical to do so. The result of this sort of buying is to force the retailer to increase his orders far beyond the normal, and

this again plays into the hands of the big speculators and helps to boost I

prices. If the customer was to buy this coffee in the green he could roast as he wished and have fresh coffee at all

times. But people have been laying away stocks of roaited coffee, and this deteriorates, losing both strength and aroma, unless packed in hermetically sealed jars. Coffee is sensitive to changes In the weather. It absorbs moisture, and in its ground state is affected by odors. It should always be kept in sealed jars unless to be used Immediately, if already ground. Time was when the housewife bought her coffee, just as it came from the trees, and prided herself on her ability to roast properly. Very few do this now. Farmers used to buy 25 and up to 100 pounds of coffee at a time and even heads of small families bought 10 and 25 pound lots. Today the two-pound can is about the limit of the family purchase, and It is enough. Millions of pounds of coffee has been bought and laid away by consumers, and this has stimulated the market. It will also cut down the demand later. It is time the advance in coffees were checked, and the speculators brought to time. Ships are in increasing supply and the reserves in coffee countries must soon come out. In the meantime there Is cocoa, and tea in abundance, both of which contain the essential stimulative element of coffee, caffeine. This is icedtea weather, and there are about 350 glasses or cups in one pound of high grade tea, making it the cheapest beverage on earth, aside from spring water.

GOULD TO APPEAL CASE

NEW YORK, July 3. Counsel for George J. Gould today announced that an appeal would be taken immediately from the order of Justice Whitaker dismissing their client as executor of the $80,000,000 estate. Frank J. Gould, who sought the order, automatically succeeds George Gould as chief executor.

MAIL CLERK EXAMINATION.

A railway mail clerk civil service examination has been scheduled here for August 23, to fill railway mail service vacancies throughout the United States, at the entrance salary of $1,100 a year.

2,000 SOLDIERS LAND

(By Associated Press) NEWPORT NEWS. Va., July 3. The transport Canandaigua landed 2,000 officers and enlisted men here today. The troops consisted of the 52nd, 642nd, 836th and 840th transportation corps companies, 326th service battalion, depot service company No. 1, hospital 19 and several hundred casuals and sick and wounded.

Bethel, Ind.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bond attended the wedding anniversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lamb at Webster, Ind., Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Ketring and son, Marvin spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hull of Fountain City Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hill and daughter, Pauline and son Howard spent Sunday with Lorin Hill and family. Fred Hill and family were also Sunday guests of Lorin Hill Mr. and Mrs. Anson Brumfield and Mr. and Mrs. Reason Wolfal spent Sunday evening with

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bond Mr. and Mrs. Everette White and Mrs. Stella j White were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knoll and family Miss Delia Anderson spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Oliver Spencer Mr. and Mrs. George Moore received a letter Saturday from their son Ralph who recently enlisted In the navy and la now at the Great Lakes. ....Neighbors and friends of Rev. and Mrs. Roy L. Brown gathered at their home Friday evening for a surprise party. Mr. and Mrs. Brown left the next morning for a few days' visit in Union City and from there to their future home in Bellefontaine, O. Mrs. Ell Hyde and Mrs. John Boren spent Friday In New Madison with Edward Roberts and family. Dale Roberts returned home with Mrs. Hyde Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Wliite spent Sunday afternoon with relatives in Winchester Miss Mabel Stidham of Richmond, is spending a few days with Miss Evelyn Huntington. . . ..John Harding and family entertained Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John Healy of Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pickens of New Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Ackerman of Spar-

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SIZES AND PRICES

PLAIN TREAD

SIZE 30x3 30x312 32x3l2 31x4 32x4 33x4 34x4 33x4 Vo 34x4i 35x412 36x4 io 35x5 37x5

Reg. Price for One Tire

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Trice of Two Tires

. .$17.15 ..$21.80 -.$25.45 ..$34.00 .-334.80 ..$36.50 ..37.15 --$47.90 f 49.50 51.70 ..$52.40 . $58.85 .$61.90 All Tires Sold

$22.15 $26.80 $30.45 $39.00 $39.80 $41.50 $42.15 $52.90 f 54.50 56.70 $57.40 63.85 66.90 on a Strictly

Reg. Price for One Tire

$25.10 $29.15 $39.40 $40.00 $41.80 $42.60 $55.85 $57.00 $59.35 $60.00 $67.45 $71.00 Cash Basis

Price of Two Tires

$30.10 S34.15 44.40 45.00 $46.80 $47.60 $60.85 $62.00 $64.35 $65.00 $72.45 $76.00

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