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AACHEN.
Guild, is a loaf of black bread, made of pure rye once ground, weighing
2 kilogrammes or 4 4 lb. English and sold in October, 1905, at the uniform
price of A^d. per 4 lb. English. Much “ grey ” bread (made of rye mixed
with wheat), and “ white ” bread (wheat mixed with rye) is also eaten,
and what the Guild of Bakers calls a “household” bread, made of rye and
wheat, is baked in small loaves. Wheaten flour is only used in working class
households for fancy baking and the predominant price was ll^rf. to Is. O^c/.
per 7 lb. ; rye flour is not sold at all by retail dealers. Nearly the whole
of the bread supply is baked by small bakers, for the factory baker is very
rare at Aachen.
Coal is the usual fuel ; briquettes are also used, but coke hardly at all.
Coal is sold by the bushel, a measure which should contain half a hectolitre,
but which is a very uncertain indicator of weight. Probably not one coal dealer
in twenty is able to guess how much coal he sells as a bushel, though he himself
buys by weight ; everything depends on the class of coal, its size, and its
degree of humidity, uncertain factors which explain a variability extending
from 75 to 100 pounds German, the latter equal to the English hundredweight.
The ruling price is about Is. per cwt.
Predominant prices paid by the working classes in October, 1905, and May, 1906.
Commodity.
Predominant Price.
October, 1905.
May. 1906.
Coffee
Sugar : —
Loaf ... ...
White Granulated
Bacon :—
Fat
Streaky
Eggs, Foreign
Cheese :—
Dutch
Limburg
Swiss
Butter
Margarine ...
Potato.es
Flour (Household)
Bread (Rye)...
Milk ...
Coal ... ... ...
Paraffin Oil
per lb.
per Is.
per lb.
per 7 lb.
per 4 lb.
per quart
per cwt.
per gallon
lid.
2\d. to 3d.
9#
11 d.
13
8£(7. to 11 d.
5(7.
11 d. to Is. 1 d.
Is
8 f(7.
3t7.
111(7. to Is
41(7.
1(7. to Is. 2|(7.
0f(7.
2|(7.
Is.
10(7.
11(7.
2#
2#
8|d.
9|(7.
14
8f(7. to 11(7.
5(7.
11(7. to Is. 1(7.
Is. 1(7.
8£(7.
3(7.
ll\d. to Js. 01(7.
4^(7.
2|(7.
Is.
10(7.
Meat.
A comparison of the slaughterings at the public abattoir during recent
years shows a marked diminution in the case of oxen and other cattle, sheep,
calves, and latterly also in pigs, but an increase in horses :
Oxen and steers
Other cattle ...
Pigs ...
Sheep
Calves
Horses and ponies
1900.
3,294
4,840
24,365
8,193
17,639
466
1901.
3,408
4,571
22.932
8,093
17.932
473
1902.
1903.
3,760
4,027
23,362
7,552
16,492
466
3,582
3,984
28,629
6,378
16,084
431
1904.
3,370
4,013
30,848
6,026
16,433
445
1905.
3,052
4,300
23,411
6,519
15,899
609
The working classes oí Aachen are not
large
