Show If o 0 GOING lOWR Potatoes in the East Worth Only Twenty Cents a Bushel Meat About Only Product Remaining g at Top Figures I I II New York April 19 The pres present present present ent sensational drop In the price of potatoes may mean cheaper food of all aU kinds Farmers are lre closing out their supply of old potatoes j for as low as 20 cents a bushel the lowest lovest price in years ears Other food is also much cheaper as the result of investigations The American Agriculturalist for April 23 will say sayA A marked decline has occurred In prices of certain food products I If this decline continues much longer the commissions investigating high prices will vIll find themselves out of ofa ofa ofa a job Compared to the high point In wheat last year your the market again ag iri shows a decline of 17 cents The decline in corn since the first of tile year isID cents and nd coats oata 21 2 cents In other words wards the present pr s nt wholesale SaJa price of oats is 3 32 per per cent c nt below the tho highest prices of last year Corn is off 24 i per cent and wheat 14 per cent These declines in grain In are reflected I in mill feeds Wheat brain is now sell selling selling selling ing in the west at nt 5 or 6 a aton ton less l ss than previous high quotations a de decline decline cline dine of 21 1 per cent while white have declined at New York points about 3 a ton or 12 per percent cent Even cottonseed meal is off 3 to 4 I or 8 S to 10 per cent Cotton itself is a fraction of r a pent cent a pound less lets than in Janu Tanu January January ary showing a decline of f about 5 per percent perc percent cent c Potatoes t have not been so low in I years wholesale prices at present being at 40 0 O to 50 O per cent lower Jower than in No November November November vember Many farmers held on to their pota potatoes potatoes potatoes toes until the late winter or spring market and are now glad to get et rid rids of their stock at 25 cents a bushel where whereas as in April a year ago they were whole wholesaling wholesaling wholesaling saling at Chicago at 1 a bushel Butter has lies declined 6 per cent eggs have gone off as usual in the spring Even cattle have no more than held their quotation of March and hogs are area a trifle off ofT although still sUlI very ery high and prices of sheep and lambs Iambs are well maintained There has been a break in inthe Inthe inthe the price of hay at many points In the west Beans are also cheaper Cold weather this week may do con considerable considerable damage to the fruit crop but ut there Is ample time for spring grains to be led wherever the sprouting crop has been badly frosted |