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Show CUTTING THE FOOD BUDGET. The price of pork and pork products pro-ducts recently returned to the 1929 i high levels. Other basic food products pro-ducts are climbing the same ladder, with the result that the cost of living j is daily becoming more of a problem i , to the average American family. J ! As prices thus advance, the needj for food distributing methods that , eliminate handling charges between ! producer and consumer becomes con- j stantly more evident. This same prob- j lem faced the consumer in the early j twenties and caused the creation of the large-scale food buying and sell-' ing organizations which have done such valuable work, not only in re- j ducing the cost of maintaining the j consumers' dinner table, but in benefiting bene-fiting the producer. j In this connection, it is well to remember re-member that the producer of farm products, the farmer, likewise constitutes consti-tutes a great consuming market. The producer, therefore, is greatly interested inter-ested not only in what he receives for what i he sells, but what he must pay for what he buys. Growth of cha'n grocery merchandising, by eliminating needless the middleman transactions, has tended to increase the farmer's share of the retail selling sell-ing price of his products, while ma-t?r'ally ma-t?r'ally lowering the cost of what he must buy as a consumer. j |