========================================================================= | | Quantity | | Price | | | | | |-----------+-----------+--------+ +-----+------ | | | | | | | Commodity |Unit of |June, 1919 |June, 1918 |Percent |Unit of|June | June |quantity| | |decrease| Price |1919 | 1918 | | | | 1919- | | | | | | | 1918 | | | ----------+--------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+-----+------ Corn | Bushel | 13,260,910| 27,883,361| 52.4|Dollars| 1.76| 1.50 | | | | |per bu.| 1.77| 1.55 ----------+--------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+-----+------ Sugar | Pound |207,622,237|217,632,365| 4.6| Cents | 8.82| 7.30 | | | | |per lb.| | ----------+--------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+-----+------ Cheese | Pound | 10,174,502| 15,875,236| 35.9| Cents | 31|21½ (American)| | | | |per lb.| | ----------+--------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+-----+------ Dry Salt | Pound |395,940,437|488,344,838| 18.9|Dollars|58.00| 48-50 Pork | | | | | per |58.50| | | | | | bbl. | | ----------+--------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+-----+------ Lard | Pound | 81,275,392|106,649,588| 23.8| Cents |33.80|24.15 | | | | |per lb.|34.30|24.25 ========================================================================= The following data, taken from the _Monthly Labor Review_ of July 1919, give a survey of the retail prices of food in the United States: