Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-22 | Page 2 | Large Firms Control Nation's Flour Industry

op LARGE FIRMS CONTROL NATION'S FLOUR INDUSTRY ; WASH IVOTt i Nov 2 2. A strone I tendency toward concentration Of the whe.it flour milling industry In s nnm-I nnm-I ber of large concerns was noted by I the federal trade commission In a re-I re-I port to congress on its Investigation ; of the industry, made public Sunday, , The inqulrj Was mad In connection with the general food investigation undertaken by ihe commission during , the war. ' The trend toward concentration In the industry was attributed to the In-lUBlrlsJ In-lUBlrlsJ development of the country and the demand for stn ndsrd iat Ion Of brands Of flour froni the large center- of population This condition has i 'nrgely eliminated the small capacity mill in the last decade. Itwis said, las the larre concerns sre better able j to supply a uniform product Ten 1 of the larger milling companies, the j report said, now hiAo a productive (Capacity of mere than half, the flour consumed in this countrj Rasing its figures on sales of thirty-seen thirty-seen companies the Commission's re- j port shows that !n the five years from 151 3 to 1!HS the average price of flour increased from $4 1.". to $10 2? j per barrel, or It jior cent while retail re-tail prices increased only 11 S per cnt and the farmer received an Increase of 1 go per cent for his wheat.