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Show VEGETABLE AND FRUIT PRICES SHOW DECLINE; WASHINGTON. Dec 2.'. The Am-'erlcan Am-'erlcan housewife in doing her mar- keting Friday for Christmas dinner found vegetable and fruit prices much below thosp f a year ago according to a comparative analysis of prices i.-iiod by the department of afrlcu) ture. Potatoes in the larger rity markets the price analysis showed, averaged about fl.&n a hundred pounds the I country over, a.s compared with an lateragt- of $f.7r. a hundred pounds a j year ago Cabbage was reported to j be selling at eleven dollars ton In i Cincinnati whero a year ago the price ; was elghty-f ivo dollars a ton with the contrast said to be nearly as great in ! nther eities. onions ranged from 75c to fl.25 a hundred pounds in large i lots, compared with $5 to $6 a year I ago. Baldwin apples were Balling at $4 to 3 a barrel for the best grades an compared with $7 to $8 last season. sea-son. "For the producer," tho statement added, "the stin: of the situation Is (lhat nil these vegetables were raifd with labor, fertiliser, seed and machinery ma-chinery that cost even higher than that which raised the crops of the year before." oo |