NUREMBERG. som 8 or 12 go to the German pound, and the price varied from 3\d. to 4-W. per lb English. 4 * 1 Coal for stove use is bought by the hundredweight at a price varying in 1905 from 15. 2\d. to Is. 4\d., representing 23a. M. to 27s. Id. per ton respectively. VV ood is, however, very largely used in summer for the sake of economy. The system of credit is not encouraged by the trading community, but by way of compensation a discount system is adopted by many of their number, a certain return in goods being given for every pound spent, whether in small or large purchases. As shown by the following table, there were practically no changes in the prices of groceries between October, 1905, and the date of the investigator’s visit in June, 1906. Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and June, 1906. Commodity. Coffee Sugar :— Loaf White Granulated Bacon :— Fat Streaky Eggs Cheese :— Limburg Swiss Butter Margarine Potatoes Flour (Household) Bread Milk Coal ... ... ... Coke Paraffin Oil per lb. per Is. per lb. per 7 lb. per 4 lb. per quart per cwt. per gallon Predominant price. October, 1905. lid. to Is. Id. 2 \d. 2\d. lid. to Is. lid. to Is. 14, 15 5\d, lid. to Is. Id. Is. Id. to Is. 2Id. 2^. Is. 3id. 5W. to 6kd. 2§d. Is. 2\d. to Is. 4\d. Is. 5d. to Is. 6^d. 10 d. June, 1906. 11 d. to Is. Id. 2^d. 21\d. lid. • lid. 18 5 id. lid. to Is. Id. Is. Id. to Is. 2\d. 8¿d. 2¿d. Is. 3fd. 5\d. to 6id. 2§d. Is. 2fd. to Is. 4{d. Is. 5d. to Is. 6id. lOd. Meat. Nuremberg has not only a large and well equipped Public Abattoir, in which all animals brought alive to the town for food must be slaughtered and prepared for sale, but also two market halls for the sale of meat and fowl respectively. A number of squares and open spaces are allotted to the sale of vegetables, farm produce, and fish, subject to municipal control and to the pay ment of fees for space. Upon all articles of food of the foregoing kinds which come into the town the municipality levies dues,—amounting virtually to octrois of the ancient pattern—in virtue of a local statute which will become extinct in several years. The tax upon cattle ranges from Is. Ijd. to 3s. 10\d. per head, that upon sheep from 3\d. to 10Jd., that upon corn is 7\d. per cwt., and that upon flour 10^d. The great bulk of the meat trade is done by the small independent “ ox ” and " pork ” butchers, whose shops are a feature of every street, whether in the centre of the town or the outskirts. Most butchers deal in meat of all kinds, though many confine themselves to pork and pork sausages. In the Nuremberg meat trade, as in many other German towns, it is the custom to charge one uniform price for meat of each kind, whether beef, mutton, veal, or pork. This custom would appear to be connected with the further custom of selling meat and bone, lean and fat together, so that picked cuts are not offered. As a rule a butcher displays in his shop or at the window the prices for the day—one for each sort of meat, save in the case of beef steak, mutton chops and cured pork,—and the customer knows exactly how much meat will be obtained for any given coin. This uniformity of price has for a long time been a matter of acute controversy amongst the butchers of the town, yet in spite of all the efforts which have been made by the Trade Guild to follow the practice of other towns, the old tradition has so far proved invulnerable.