Show FACTS ABOUT MEAT IN STORAGE ARE GARBLED Ogden Packer Declares Public Public Pub Pub- lic lie Gets Much Misinformation Misinformation formation formations S S. S. S Jensen of Ogden Packing and Provision company compan said eald today that according to advices ad Just received from the tho bureau of public relations American Meat fent Packers' Packers association the storage stocks stock of meat and lard I Inow now available for Cor consumption would not satisfy the normal requirements of the United States for more than two to weeks if iC current were stopped Mr Jensen said I The public recently has o received cd much ml misinformation in ht regard to meat held In stora storage t Few persons realize that th the stored quantities are insignificant a as compared with world needs or even with domestic con con- 1 sum n Advices Ad Just received from the I American Meat Packers' Packers a. a association I Ib b by its members Indicate that the stocks of oC meat and lard now in storage storage stor stor- age e as reported to the department of oC agriculture on May 1 amount to pounds In In 1918 InS the meat production of the United d States was pounds an m average of oC i pounds monthly All the stocks now in storage arc are less thin than th n three fourths of oC the tho production during one month I HALF POUND A DAY The department of or agriculture has calculated that the per capita consumption consumption consumption con con- of or meat and lard in the United States is 1935 r. r pounds or about one half pound per person per perda da day On this basis the tho United States with a population now approximating consumes pounds daily I It is thus apparent that If It the I American people were now dependent I I f solely on the storage stocks stock the supply supply supply sup sup- ply would their normal demands de- de de 1 mands for tor less loss than twenty five days daVA But nut as a matter of or fact a great r at part of ot the storage stocks I Is not available available available avail avail- able for tor consumption The portion owned b by r allied governments go on the latest date for tor which wo have information information mation matlon exceeded third one-third of oC the to total total total to- to tal quantity In storage I SOME BEING CURED I I j In Tn addition a consi considerable erable part of ot I the stored meats are still In process I j lor I of being cured and are re therefore In inno 1 no a sense a reserve supply available I. I I j I for consumption It is probable that the a portion of at I stored stocks available for consumption consumption 1 tion O l would not fill the tho normal do- do do 1 1 I mands mand of or the United States StatIC's for Cor two Ie-I Ie i I weeks The stocks tocks now on hand are larger er than thant it t tho the corresponding time I last Hast hu t tear year ear due to unusually heavy re- re I of livestock tock during th the acI accumulating ac- ac I 1 cumulating period while shipping fa- fa I I I were Inadequate It has taken months to pile up these theRO stocks AS AK I Ii j i shipping becomes Increasingly available available avail avail- able with demands for Cor export and I consumption it may completely f ex exhaust exhaust ex- ex X- X I haust the tho stored supplies before the j i end of ot summer j I SUPPLIES IN STORAGE When hen h n tho the supplies s In storage In- In Intended in intended tended In considerable part for COl ot export are vie ed led In the light of or world demand de Ic- Ic mand and world consumption Uon they seem Small indeed bast as aa re reported to tho I department of oC agriculture on May 1 are as M follows Commodity Pounds Frozen beef beer Cured beef beet Lamb and mutton Frozen p pork rk Dry salt pork Pickled pork La Lard rd Miscellaneous r |