Excerpt from Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor, 1907, Vol. 15Some idea of the high prices of 1906 can be gained when it is seen that the average prices of 17 of the 30 articles Were higher in 1906 than in any other year of the seventeen-year period 1890 to 1906. Compared with prices in 1896, the year of lowest prices during the period, the price of every article, except coffee and prunes, was higher in 1906 than in 1896, and in the case of 12 of the 30 articles it was more than 25 per cent above the level of 1896. The increases in the price of some of the more important articles over the 1896 prices were as follows: Bacon, per cent, potatoes, per cent, fresh pork, per cent, lard, per cent, and chickens, per cent.The average price in 1906 for each of the 30 articles separately and as a whole is compared with the average price during each of the years from 1890 to 1905 in the following table which shows the per cent of increase or decrease.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.