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Show GOOD NEWffi IF TRUE HEAD OF ARMOUR INTERESTS BELIEVES FOOD PRICES ARE CON.ING'DOWN. Believes That Climax Has Been Reached and Lower Prices Are Due Says Farmers Can Solve the Pork Problem. Kansas City Charles Armour, head of the Armour interests here, said on Friday that he believed that .food prices had reached their climax and were now on the down grade. ."General food prices are working towards a lower basis," he said. "The cereals are getting down. People are going to take advantage of lower prices and that will have a tendency to relieve the stringency ia meat prices, especially pork." Just how soon the lower prices are to come, Mr. Armour said he did not know. "But we welcome the time," he said, "for no dealer likes to sell stuff at such, high prices as pork has .been bringing for several weeks. But when the packer has to pay 8, 9, 10 and 11 cents for live hogs, what has he to gay about prices?" Mr. Armour said that if the farmers would raise better hogs the pork problem in this country soon would be solved. Suppose, he argued, that two pounds etxra weight were put on every hog sent to the markets. The aggregate increase in weight would be enormous. "If the farmers were to work harder for healthy hogs how much less pork would be condemned by the United States inspectors," he said. |