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Show WHOLESALE BUTTER SLUMPSINCHICAGO CHTCAGO, Dec. 22 (Wholesale (Whole-sale butter prices dropped more than three cents a pound Wednesday, Wednes-day, reflecting decreased consumption consump-tion and increased production report re-port "Extras" were quoted at 34 cents a pound, compared with 37Mi yesterday yester-day and 394 two weeks ago, a' seven-year high. Traders said evidences of lessened consumer demand were visible in the weekly storage figures, which showed the movement of stocks out of storage in the 35 principal cities last week was more than 1.000,000 pounds less than In th. corresponding correspond-ing week of 183. |