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Show BUTTER COMING FROM ALL PARTS OF WORLD Reduction in the Tariff Kcsponsiblo for tho Importation and Lower Prices. NEW YORK, Jan. 31. An influx of foreign butter from all parts of thoJ world, duo to the reduction of the tariff tar-iff from 2Vi to 5 cents a pound, has caused a decline in the Now York wholesale prices of 10 cents a pound since tho first of tho year. Butter hns boon coming to this city from as far off as Australia by way of San Francisco. Threo hundred thousand thou-sand pounds from that country has boon laid down hero within tho last two or ihrco woeks. Buttor ha3 also been shipped from Argentine, Don-marl; Don-marl; and Siberia. The shipments, buttor dealers admitted admit-ted today, havo created marked uneasiness uneasi-ness in the wholesalo markot, with tho result that there has been an unloading of various stocks. Today tho best grado butter was sejling at 26 to 27 cents a pound wholesale. Tho American demand de-mand for foreign butter has caused a rifio of 2 to 3 cents a pound in some of tho foreign markets. It is generally admitted here that the price of butter in this country will be kept in the fn-tuTo fn-tuTo at a lower average level than bo-fore. |