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Show - PRICES TO CONSUMER ACCORDING REPORT Prices paid to producers of " farm crops during the month of August indicate in-dicate a steady decrease to consumers according to M. M. Justin, agricultural statistician, who bases his statement upon advices from Washington, D. C. The level of prices paid to producers decreased 10.6 per cent during last month, which left the current price, September 1, this year about 7.2 per cent lower than one year ago. Not only is this decline true of the actual foodstuffs produced upon the farms of Utah, but it is also true in the nation at large, the statistician says. This fall in prices includes cattle, cat-tle, which also experienced a decided decline. In one month, from July 15 to August 15, the prices of meat animals ani-mals decreased 2.3 per cent throughout through-out the United States. On August 15, the prices' of hogs, cattle, sheep and chickens were 22.1 per cent lower than that date one year ago, and 14.8 per cent lower than two year3 ago; this in the face of the fact that there are fewer hogs and chickens in the nation than one year ago. The yields In foodstuffs are showing show-ing an increase on August 1 of 7.2 per cent over that date last year, although al-though the total acreage is less this year than last, by about 5.4 per cent. Utah is keeping up Its share in the line of increased production, this state showing 103 per cent of average. Crops which show an increase over the average production are corn, oats, barley, white potatoes, tobacco, flax seed, rice, clover seed, sugar beets, cotton, appies, pears, kaffir corn, peanuts, hops and sorghum. The apple crop shows better than any other crop in the United States, the gain over last year being 50 per cent. Rice increased 27 per cent over the 1919 crop, being 27 per cent, and clover seed 31 per cent. The sugar beet crop of the United States compared com-pared with last year will be three-tenths three-tenths of one per cent greater, from the outlook on September 1. |