Show PRoms PROFITS AE SliGHT iB FUR FOR MEAT PACKERS It If it Is true as the comparatively modern saw relates that the big meat packers save everything but the squeal in pigs It is probably due to the tho tact fact that the margin of profit Is Isso isso so slight that it if anything more than the got away this margin of profit would entirely disappear According to Louis I F Swift president n dent ot of Swift Co in his addres I to the stockholders at the thirty thirty- fourth annual meeting In January I and which Is contained in the Year 1919 just Issued the company's profits on the United States meat business during 1918 1913 wore were less than the 9 per centon capital employed permitted by the regulations of the United States food admInistration Mr Swift stated that the margin of profit In the meat departments alot alone wa was per cent of the turnover ery JI being approximately 1 J cent p per 1 pound before paying taxes or Interest Inter Inter- est eat on borrowed money The Book contains much of Interest not only to those Interested in the Swift company but butto 1 to growers and retailers and It ca cabe be obtained from the company fOrr the asking |