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predominant range for all commodities except sugar (white granulated) and 
wheaten flour, for which they are above the limits, and potatoes, for which t íey 
are below the limits :— 
Predominant Range of Retail Prices in German downs {including Berlin) 
in October, 1905. 
Commodity. 
Number 
of 
Towns 
included. 
Coffee 
... per lb. 
Sugar (white granu- „ 
lated). 
t Bacon 
Cheese (Dutch) ... „ ¡ 
„ (Limburg) . . „ ' j 
Butter ... ... ,, 
Margarine „ 
Potatoes ... ... per7lb. 
Flour, wheaten ... „ 
Bread, grey ...per 41b. j 
Milk per qt. 
fBeef per lb. 
t P ork ... » 
Coal percwt 
Paraffin oil ... pergal. 
33 
33 
33 
12 
27 
33 
32 
33 
33 
32 
33 
33 
33 
31 
33 
Predominant Range 
of Retail Prices, 
October, 1905. 
Number of Towns in which the Mean 
Predominant Price is 
Within the 
limits of the 
Predominant 
Range. 
Below the I Above the 
limits of the limits of the 
Predominant Predominant 
Range. | Range. 
11 d. 22 
2p7., 2# 24 
8|(7. to lid. 30 
8# „ 9# ; 8 
„ 6&(7. 23 
Is. Id. „ Is. 2fd. 27 
7# „ 81(7. j 25 
2^(7. „3(7. ! 25 
1 l\d. „ Is. lf(7. ¡ 20 
4# „ 6^(7. ! 27 
2^(7. „ 2§(7. 25 
7^(7. „ 8^. ' 26 
8|(7. „ 11(7. 29 
101(7. „ Is. 4(7. 19 
9^(7. „ 11(7. 30 
3 
4 
2 
1 
3 
2 
6 
5 
7 
3 
7 
6 
4 
6 
1 
8* 
5 
1 
3 
1 
4 
1 
3 
6 
2 
1 
1 
0 
6 
2 
# The price usually paid in each of these towns is either 11(7. or Is. 1(7. 
f The prices relate to the cuts taken into consideration in constructing the Prices 
Index Numbers. 
For Coffee the price oilld. was almost universal ; a higher price, generally 
I*. l(/.,^vas\tated to be frequently paid by the working classes in the towns 
of South Germany, and in Leipzig, Flauen and Königshütte. 
The price paid for Sugar is also very uniform, the extreme range in 
October 1905, being from’2^.-to 2|d. The lower limit was quoted as the sole 
working-class price only in Zwickau, Breslau and Dantzig, and the upper limit 
occurred only in Berlin, in three of the hardware towns of Rhineland-Westphalia 
(including Düsseldorf, where 2|d. was the only price quoted as predominantly 
paid), and in Plauen. 
In the case of Bacon it was not possible in obtaining prices to adhere to 
one particular quality or brand throughout all the towns The prices given in 
the above Table relate to both “ fat bacon {fetter Speck), and streaky bacon 
(,durchwachsener Speck). In many of the towns (as will be seen from 
Appendix III, p. 497) there is no difference between the range of prices of the 
two kinds though elsewhere the range for streaky bacon is naturally the higher 
of the two. Fat bacon is used, as already pointed out, almost solely for 
cooking purposes. 
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