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Show FEDERAL CONTROL OF MEATS ORGED AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT IN-SISTS IN-SISTS PRESENT QUOTATIONS ARE MUCH TOO HIGH. Only Method of Causing Reduction of Price to Consumer is Government Action Which Will Force the Prices Down. Washington. Federal supervision of Ihe packing, sale and distribution of meat products is declared by the department de-partment of agriculiure to lie the only solution for the presenr situation in wliiolL meat prices to the consumer are so high that he is denying himself, anil in which prices for livestock, especially beef and lambs, are so low that iht producer is losing money. Tlie department emphasized that "save food" signs should now be disregarded dis-regarded as to meat, especially beef and wheat products. Faced by the largest wheat crop on record and with many callle raised in response to Ihe demand for meat production for the army now maturing, the American people, peo-ple, the department asserred, must realize that no necessity for conservation conserva-tion of such foods any longer exists. A survey of the meat price situation, situa-tion, 'the department said, reveals that the excessive retail prices now existing exist-ing are not justified by wholesale quotations. quo-tations. Prices to the producers have declined since the war, it was said, hut prices paid by the consumer have not materially lessened. The only solution, so-lution, the department believes, is more strict federal supervision. |