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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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