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Show SAUERKRAUT WILL BE HIGHER. Chicago, Doc. 1. The price of sauerkraut sauer-kraut will bo higher in 1911 because of a shortage in the cabbage crop. More than 500.000 forty-pound casks of sauerkraut were eaten In the United States last year. This country Is the largest consumer of sauerkraut in tho world and tho rate of consumption consump-tion in Increasing at the rate of 2. per cent annually. Further, this country is exporting kraut to Germany, Ger-many, and German manufacturers are copying the American product, acknowledging ac-knowledging It to be the best. The facts were given by W. W. yilder. secretary of the National Kraut Packers' association, in session here. |