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Show f HAGENBARTH'S BAD BREAK. I President Frank J. Hagonbarth, of I tho National Live Stock Association, Is about as sapient; about as wise; as sagacious; about as acuto as any man who over came down the pike. This Is demonstrated by an Interview he stands sponsor for In yesterday's issue of the Herald. In this Interview he attempts to show why beef on the hoof brings a very low price to the retailer. Listen to what Mr. Hagenbarth says, I yen buyers of meat'. "I3eef is high to the consumer, because be-cause more than half the consumers in this country demand loin steak or rib roast. They will not buy tho cheaper and poorer grades of meat. Tho result Is that there is an abnormal demand for tho bettor meat while tho poorer meat goes begging. Go into tho market and you will llnd that you can buy th6 nock, the shank and the other pari of the carcass asido from tho loin surprisingly sur-prisingly cheap." All of which shows that Hagenbarth doo3n't know what he Is talking about1. L' It may bo true that tho neck Is cheap; it always has boon cheaper than the i other parts of tho carcass, but there aro several dips, spurs and angles to a carcass outside tho neck. And there I is more loin in a beef than there Is neck. But lot us lay aside tho loin and tho rib and buy a pleco of common round steak, pome of it tougher than that cut from a Hull of Bashan. How much does two bits buy Mr. Hagenbarth? About one pound and a half. Some shops may sell a little more, but take any of tho so called standard markets and try Iti Take tho tlank steaks dry, tasteless fodder that they aro, and see how cheap thoy sell at. A quarter's worth will just about cover your two hands. How about bri3ket and rump roasts? Can you touch them for less than 12 cents and oftener 14 and 15 cents the pound? Nit. Surely Hagenbarth lets his cook buy tho meat and knows nothing about It. Tanglo up with a shank bono for soup Mr. Hangen barth and see what you pay for It. fTImo was when a soup bono was cheap, now the salesman charges you about 25 cents a pound for tho moat on one and throws tho bono in. He is always generous with the bone, is tho modern butcher's salesman. If Hagenbarth knpws no more about pr!co3 of beef than his interview dem-1 dem-1 onstrates Hangenbarth ought to resign and get himself elected elec-ted President of some saw mill association. Every housewife in Zion can successfully contradict him. Timo was when liver was supposed to be an article that any one could have. Nowadays liver sells anywhere from twelve to twenty cents per pound. Tho butcher used to cut out a small bit of tho bono from one's steak and saw off tho lower bono and tho tall bone from one's leg of mutton. He will do it yet, but not until tho meat has been weighed. After it Is yours, if ho is a good follow, ho will cut It out and toss it into tho box whore it remains until tho proprietor of some dago joint comes round and buys tho whole moss for soup. Hagenbarth declares tho people all want rib roast and loin steaks. Lot him look at tho bargain counters in tho Palace and other leading moat markets overy night and see caro worn wlvc3 overcrowed tho place In their anxiety to get something tilling and cheap and ho will seo where ho Is mistaken. mis-taken. Ho Is a theorist that's all, and what ho don't know about prices of meat would fill a library. o |
