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Show Etli PROFITS SHOWWiOE RANGE Federal Board Completes Series on Situation in Regard to Meats. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. Retailers' profits on sales range from S to 33 per cent on meats prepared at the great centralized cen-tralized markets of the country and from 15 to 38 per cent on sales of farm prepared pre-pared meats. Those gross profits were disclosed today to-day in a report by a committee appointed by the secretary of agriculture to consider con-sider economics of the meat situation. Tho report concluded a scries ox five on various phases of- the situation and relates to methods and cost of marketing market-ing stock and meats. The farmer's share of the gross returns re-turns from - centralized market meats ' ranged from 54 to S5 per cent, while from 2 to 5 per cent went to pay market expenses ex-penses and 2 to 9 per cent was received by the packers. On locally prepared meats from 62 to 84 per cent of the gross returns was received re-ceived by the farmer and from 15 to oS per cent by the retailers. While the report relates to an Investigation Investi-gation made between the winter of 1913-14 and the' beginning of this year, officials believe' it represents conditions as they now exist, when the price of meats is rising gradually every month. Methods of marketing, and classes of animals vary in different sections of the country, it was found. . Municipally owned or controlled ab-hattolrs ab-hattolrs were found to be becoming increasingly in-creasingly Important in the local marketing mar-keting of livestock, displacing the old type of slaughter houses. |