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records, to say nothing of the soap, paper towels, cooking utensils, or foil wrap that we hive come to think of as grocery items. These non-food purchases account for 20 per cent of the average supermarket bill. /It's easy too, to keep on

allotting the same amount of money for food, year after year, even though all costs of living are creeping upward and salaries are regularly upped. Yes. food costs more now than it used to, but it takes a smaller percentage of income than it used to, and that* 8 the important fact. Now let’s take .a look at what determines the retail prices of food, and see what adds to the cost after they leave the farm. Maybe the farmer isn't to blame after all!

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