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WHY THE PRICE OP PURE EXTRACTS HAS ADVANCED. ?' ■—- . • -v IMciIm $appli«ithe Honiewife With the Kvnii fur the Sett Flavoring .Article in h) Her Pantry and Recent Crops Axe Sot ) Equal to the lenvatt(f.( * A special from Vera Cruz, Mex., confirms'tb# rumors of a shortage in the supply of Mexican vauilla beans. The finest beans in the ar®grown ill Vera Cruz, and upon this crop the manufacturers of first class vanilla flavoring extras are dependent for their supply. vNot a pound of the best beans now ... remain in the hands of the curers, either of the ’98 or previous cropA)The heavy frost of ’94 destroyed whole plantations,' and in ’95 the Indians about Pa^antla.gotTnto al clash with the autho’rit; s and, out of re: venge, destroyed the -vanilla ^plants almost entirely.6 As Fapaiitla is the Centre of the vanilla-growiug industry, the decrease from the normal supply ever since has been relatively enormous. -The entire lack of a reserve supply, however, has justbeooine known, and, as a result,the pride of the best beaus bus jumped'to a .figure nearly triple that of ’94. This, will force the Manufacturers of pure vauilla extracts to increase the price of their goods.The above dispatch v\ as shown to the Joseph Burnett company of Boston by a Herald repyrtjer. This firm bas always been recognized as the munufacturers.of the highest grade of flavoring extracts on the market.» “Well, this simply means,” said a member of the firm, “that the present high pricesfor good vauilla beans will be maintained for several years longer. We have already been obliged to advance the wholesale price of our vanilla extracts and, consequently,housekeepr ers who want the tpure article have to pay a little more for it. We had hoped that the high market price of the beaus would brinj| forth a reserve supply which would |orce prices down again, but,if there is no reserve supply, of course this cannot happen.“We have always used the highest grade of Mexican beans we could get and shall continue to do so.. In fact, it is impossible to make a perfectly good and pure extract of any other! variety
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The Winthrop Visitor
Winthrop, Massachusetts, US
Fri, Feb 17, 1899
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