Show HIGH MEAT PRICES everywhere practically every country affected by increase in staple food products washington Washing tom meat prices have ad danced in all the principal consuming and producing sections of the world according to statistics compiled by the department or oT commerce and labor the report shows the chief meat exporting countries of the world to ba b australia new zealand argentine canada and the united states the chief meat importing imparting countries the united kingdom germany and in il a less degree the tha other european coun tries the advance in fresh mw meat prices Is less than in salted and pre served meats and in nearly all cases the advance in beef is less lesi than iban taid that in pork or mutton the tact fact that the tha percentage of advance in 16 theorice the Ithe price pt fresh meats espi especially delally teofe shipped in chilled or frozen state has not been as great as the advance in salted 04 ox preserved meats Is said to be due dua to t reductions in tho the past few years in ID the cost of chil chilline linc or freezing and ol of transporting meats meata or of this class |