SOLINGEN.
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cost in October, 1905, 4¿d for 4 lb., grey bread 6¿d, and fine wheaten
bread for the same weight. The price per loaf of black and grey bread
seldom varies ; the weight is, however, increased or reduced according to the
price of flour. The quality of coffee usually bought at the same time cost
lid per lb. Dutch and Limburg cheeses are chiefly eaten by the working
classes, the former costing 8fd and the latter 5d. per lb. in 1905. Fresh butter
cost Is. Id per lb., but there was a large consumption of margarine at 7jd
Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and
September, 1907.
Predominant Prices.
Commodity.
Coffee
Sugar :—
Loaf...
White Granulated
Bacon :—
Fat ...
Streaky
Eggs ...
Cheese :—
Limburg
Swiss
Dutch
Butte r
Margarine
Potatoes
Flour :—
Wheaten
Buckwheat
Bread :—
White
Grey
Black
Milk ...
Coal ...
Coke ...
Paraffin
per lb.
per Is.
per lb.
per 7 lbs.
per 4 lbs.
per quart
per cwt.
per gallon
October, 1905.
11 d
2|d,3d
2\d., 2fd
9#
9*d
14
5d.
Is. to Is. Id
8fd
Is. Id. to Is. 2\d.
7#
3d
Is. Id
11 \d.
84d
6id
4\d.
2#
9fd to lid
Is. 2#d
9\d.
September, 1907.
lid to Is. Id
2|d to 3d
2\d. ,, 2£d
9|d
9|d
12&to 17
5 d
Is. Id
9|d
Is. lfd to Is. 2fd
8fd „ 9fd
3d
Is. 2^d to Is. 4d.
Is. 4d
8\d.
7#
5|d
2fd
Is. Ofd to Is. 1 \d.
Is. 5d
10£d to lid
Meat.
The meat supply of Solingen comes almost entirely through the Cologne
and Elberfeld markets. There are no longer imports from Holland save in
winter, and the beef and pork then obtained from that source come ready for
market. The prices of all kinds of meat have risen considerably here as
everywhere else in Germany during the last two years. It is difficult to trace the
effect of this on consumption, since no estimate of the town’s annual meat
consumption has been attempted by the authorities. The following are,
however, the slaughterings in the public abattoir during the years 1904-6 :—
1904.
Cattle
Pigs
Calves
Sheep
Goats
Horses
5,786
14,509
3,302
983
54
951
1905.
5,804
10,467
3,014
946
54
1,132
•1906.
5,302
12,778
3,183
850
55
946
