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Show FEDERAL CONTROL OF MS URGED AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT IN-SISTS IN-SISTS PRESENT QUOTATIONS ARE MUCH TOO HIGH. Only Method of Causing Reduction of Price to Consumer is Government Action Which Will Force the Prices Down. Washington. Federal mihm isiuu of the packing, sale and distribution of meat products is declared by the department de-partment of agriculture to be th d.v solution for til present situalion in which meat prices to the consumer are so high that he is denying himself, and In which prices for livestock, especially beef mid hi ml is, are so low that the producer Is losing money. The department emphasized that "save food" signs should now he disregarded dis-regarded as In meal, especially beef nnd wheat products. Faced by the largest wheat crop on record and Willi many caltle raised in response to the demand for meat production for the army now maturing, the American people, peo-ple, the depart inenf asserted, must realize that no necessity for conservation conserva-tion of such foods any longer exists. A survey of the meat price situation, situa-tion, the department said, reveals that, the excessive retail prices now existing exist-ing are not justified by wholesale quotations. quo-tations. Prices to the producers have declined since the war, it was said, but prices paid by the consumer have not materially lessened. The only solution, so-lution, the department believes, is more strict federal supervision. |