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Show BUTTER WILL BE HIQH FOR SPRING OF 1910. Elgin, 111. Jan. 17. Optimistic housewives who expect the price of butter to drop from 40 cents to 25 cents a pound as summer approaches, are between 7 and 10 cents- off on their guess, according to members of tho Elgin board of trade, who establish butter prices for tho middle west every Monday afternoon. Every spring quotations of the Elgin board drop from 30 to 40 conts wholesale, to between be-tween 20 and 25 cents. This year, creamery men doclaro, there will bo no decided drop in the market. A 20- l cent wholesale quotation is predicted. I This moans buttor at the grocery I storei Jit 35 cents. |