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Show PRODUCE m : BLAMEFARMER Dealers Tell Investigators Grower Gets 80 Per Cent of Increase. .CHICAGO, Nov. 26. Investigations into I he reasons back ot" the present unprecedented un-precedented high cost of butter ahd eggs have brought forth assertions from produce dealers In Chicago that the farmer farm-er is receiving 80 per cent ofthe abnormal ab-normal increase. The remainder was said to be divided among manufacturer, jobber, wholesaler and retailer. The best quality of butter in Chicago is selling at 7o cents a pound, with strictly fresh e&gR retailing at 7R cents a dozen. Figures were submitted to investigatory, investiga-tory, showing that on butter the farmer Is receiving S9Va cents a pound for Ingredients In-gredients used in manufacturing the product. The creamery gets a profit of about i2 cents a pound for making the product. Shrinkage and the labor in packing cost VZ cents a pound. The 'jobber is said to get lcent a pound, the wholesaler 1 cent a pound and the retailer 6 cents a pound profit. In the matter of strictly fresh eegs the farmer, it is said, receives 58 and 60 cents a dozen for his product. The country dealer who pays the freight of . shipping Is allowed a margin of 7 cents. 1 There Is a loss in candling of 4 cents and the cost of cartons amounts to 1 cent a dozen. The retailers' profit Is given as 6 crnls a dozen. J. V. lOW, president of the Chicago butter and egg board, In a statement today to-day said the present high prices were the result of market conditions and dinted a I charge of profiteering by either the producer pro-ducer or dealers. |