Show BREAD READ PRIGS PRICES HELD TOO HIGH I Bread read Saving Habits of Wartime Should Be Ber r Dropped Advice WASHINGTON NOT No 26 i Teed 8 continuation of ot bread saving habits habit formed In wartime war de- de department de department of ot agriculture declared In a ste statement Issued to- to today to today day Is isi limiting American wheat t consumption to the disadvantage Qt of both producer and consumer A return to war pre-war food habits Sn In the use of wheat by the th public and the feeding of low grade wheat to livestock department assert ert would help greatly toward solving the tho wheat problem A t GIVEN The wide Wido disparity between the cost of or bread to the consumer and the price received by the producer for the wheat from which It ts made Is cited by the department as asan asan san an Illustration of ot the disproportion disproportion- disproportionate ate relationship which exists bl- bl between be between tween the price of ot farm products and the price of things that have ha gone through a manufacturing process The price of bread In cities titles has not fallen with th the the price of v cheat heat and flour sais saS the tho statement A pound loaf lont of bread which h In Min In 14 1918 cost cost 68 B 3 8 cents noW costs approximately 9 cents I while flour nour which hleb In 14 1913 cot cost 54 4 4 A a barrel now costs 16 26 89 AI Al- Al Allowing Al lowing 2 0 O loaves loa to the barrel the marein marCin between the flour price and the bread price has Increased from 1040 1040 to 18 30 BOTH INJURED It It Is ob obvious lous that such condl- condl conditions condl however caused work ork to the disadvantage Antage of both producers and consumers Producers are Injured I iby by bv the tho restrictions which Is caused Sn In the demand and consumers are arc Injured en- en en fores en force and uneconomic limitation III the uso use of or an essential food All Interests in fn the country Including those ho e of the bakers baker and millers Would be benefited b by the restora restora- restoration tion of or a more normal ratio bt- bt between be between t tween een the price of wheat heat when It t leaves es the farmers farmer's hands and Its it Trice price to the final consumer |