Excerpt from Farm-Retail Spreads for Food Products, 1947-64: Assembly, Transportation, Processing, Wholesaling, Retailing Changes in the retail cost of the market basket often differ slightly from those in the index of retail prices of food at home, a component of the bls Consumer Price Index. This food price index, like the market basket retail cost, relates to prices of food bought by urban wage-earner and clerical-worker families and single work ers for consumption at home, but it also covers purchases of imported foods and fishery products not in the market basket. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Farm-Retail Price Spreads for Dairy Products 1939-66 Source: Prices and price spreads from farm-retail Spreads for Food Products, 1947 64 Farm production per man-hour from Changes in Farm Production and Efficiency Output per man-hour in manufacturing farm-originated foods from Marketing and Transportation Situation Farm-wholesale price spreads from special tabulation covering 1947-64. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

This publication provides a central reference on price spreads and related data on marketing farm food products. It should be a useful research tool and a source of information for those who frequently need to explain changes in farm-to-consumer price spreads. This publication brings together statistics and analyses from other publications and unpublished manuscripts. A selected annotated bibliography refers the reader to other references.