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Show PRICES ARE ' GOHOOWN Meats and Other Food Products Are Taking a Big Drop New York, Nov. 15. Reports from various parts of th.J country indicating indicat-ing a fall In the price of meats, reflected re-flected by similar reports from local dealers, show the 'decline has already al-ready begun, the wholesale price of beef haing gone on an average of 3-4 cents in the last week. One of the leading dealers said sirloin sir-loin steak, that had brought 24 cents a pound, win now selling at 22, and porterhouse was do.vn 3 cents a pound selling at 25 cents, whereas It had brought 28 cents Fresh pork products, however, show tho greatest drop, the dealers selling cuts lor roasting at IS cents a pound that have within a short time l?en bringing 22 cents. Ixird is down 2 cents a pound, the price yesterday being be-ing IS cenl6. The best gTades of ham and bacon, on the contrarv, show hardly any change. This is accounted for by the length of time it takes in curing. The ; dealers say the stocks of cured meats are very light and it will naturally be fome time before the increased production pro-duction of hogs offsets this condition. condi-tion. The market men attribute the relief re-lief from, high prices to the enormous corn crop and the-, consequents. low price of the cereal The law prices of the feed combined with the past high prices of pork, they say, have resulted, as was expected, in an Increased In-creased raising of hogs. |