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Show Profiteering in Peanuts CJCARCE anything seems to havi advanced so much in price as th once humble but now exaltet 1 goober." Twenty-five years ago a "bag" o! peanuts ordinarily held a pint. Sinc then it has had a tendency to shrink, But of late the shrinkage has beeC progressing so rapidly as to excite alarm. Buy a bag tomorrow; count then and you will find that you have, in ro-turn ro-turn for a perfectly good nickel, about twenty-flve peanuts. There may be no more than twenty. Five peanuts for a cent are not enough. A cent for four is a swindle. The only thing to do is to quit buying peanuts until the price comes down. The acreage planted with peanuts in this country is Increasing enormously year by year. Thero Is no reason or excuse for such an adiance in price. Manifestly the wholesalers are profiteering prof-iteering and the retailers are getting their Peanuts In the shell, at the present retail price, cost about five times as I much as bread, weight for weight. ,nd at that they are usually o aa ia- 1 1 1 I I |