Show THE The Farmer Gets a Low Price For His The Butcher Makes a Big When bee wholesales in Salt Lake for 6 cents per by the quarter it is an outrage for the Salt Lake butcher to charge from 10 to 22 for retailing The New York World has figured the enormous profits of the beef trust in the following well written article on the When the butcher charges 12 cents a pound for a piece of chuck and 26 to 30 cents for best roasts and steaks the consumer is told to blame the Beef This places only part of the Beef comes from bulls and If any man has a cow and tries to sell it to the butcher he will find that meat in the form of live cow is worth about 3 cents a The wholesale price of live cows is to a Bulls cost They sell at to a which make the best are quoted at to a hundred In feeding cattle the farmer figures roughly that it takes ten pounds of grain to make a pound of without allowing for the rough the grass and corn At present prices of all grain selling at more than 1 cents a it would be folly for a farmer to buy grain and feed 10 or 15 cents' of to get 5 cents' worth of This explains why the high grades of corn-fed beef are With corn at 79 cents a corn-fed steers should bring the farmer more than double their present Cattle dress three-fifths to two-thirds of their live Thus a live steer should sell dead and dressed for 10 cents a pound were the loss all The That Is But the loss is not all The hide o a steer weighs 80 to This hide is worth 15 to 20 cents a about double the pound value of the The tallow will weigh as i much as the The i liver and trimmings are The tripe and sweetbreads are i The casings are worth more a pound than the The hoofs are turned into The bones become manufactured articles or The offal makes tank- i age which sells for as much as fer- i as an old cow will bring on i the i The i blood and sell for 1 as much a pound on the average as the live animal Here is where the Beef Trust's profits come The flaw in their public statements is that they assume that the difference between the live weight and the dressed weight is almost all loss and that they only come out even when they sell a steer for 10 cents a pound dressed The hide alone gives them big all the bigger because the Beef Trust has been buying control of tanneries and stock the Leather making all the profits on the hide from the live steer and the finished leather for the From the Beef Trust the carcass goes to the who pays from 9 to 12 cents a pound for it in According to the ty of his trade and the grade of purchases the butcher sells this to bring him an average price of 14 to 20 cents a How the Carcass Is Cut As a steer is cut in the New York market one-sixth is one-tenth is one-quarter is rounds and one-third The remaining sixth is flank and The retail butcher does the most of his trimming at the consumer's In most cases he weighs before cutting off the bone and Neither in cases where he is not paid for these trimmings are they a loss because meat trimmings go into Hamburg steak and chip fat trimmings into tallow and and bone trimmings into soup or Railroad freight is less of an on Page INCREASED COST OF LIVING from Page item in the meat bill than the case of perishable food like eggs and fresh On a steer from a farm in one of the States to Chicago the freight by carload shipment is to Further the freight is to about a quarter of a cent a pound of live Canned beef does not come from corn fed but from cows and bulls which cost the packers dressed five or six cents a pound and sell retail in time for 20 to 35 cents a has been no attempt made to bring together the producers and consumers of No family ever buys a whole beef carcass or could handle one if it One steer would furnish the meat that a family of five would eat in a Their facilities for utilizing the by-products restrict outside competition with the Beef The small butcher cannot afford to put in a glue or fertilizer plant or a canning factory to turn trimmings and by-products to the best while the Chicago ing houses have developed the byproducts to such an extent that even the blood is turned to substantial profit and the by-products would earn big dividends without making a penny on the Highly Like the Standard Oil which manufactures axle colors and having even established a road department for its asphalt ail the Beef Trust has developed the side lines of the business in a way that no small competitor This makes the farmer and the consumer almost Although grains have increased 20 to 50 per in the farmer's receipts for his live cattle have remained Oh the other the increase in the cost of feed and the diminished production from the farms have enabled the Beef Trust to raise its prices by the half cent and And every Beef Trust raise means that the retailer raises that much more with hi's additional From utilizing the by-products of beef it was a short step to in chickens and Hogs and pork products were part of the original business of the Beef At present the price of live hogs is higher than in recent to a This is because of the high price of corn and unlike cows and hogs cannot be brought to a good marketable condition without The cheapest meat is sheep though the housewife may not think so from her butcher's Good live sheep may he bought for a which would make six cents a pound were it not for the excessive profits of the number of middlemen through whose hands the sheep goes from the farm to The Meat Trust's highest percentage of profits is in Every farm has a flock of chickens which hatch in the hustle around in the orchards or meadows or corn fields and around the barnyard and feed-lot during the and are sold in the fall when frost comes and they would have to be fed to be kept over during the Arkansas j. sas and Nebraska ions of i lions When time conies these duck except a flock to carry the winter and breed in t The farmer's wife has these t her like the eggs 9 sells them to the country keeper or to the chicken I for one of the big Meat Trust She receives 6 to 9 m t a after the buyers mate tl sure that the chickens have been i starved for a day or two so as to t weigh as little as possible mi sometimes less through using t Held for High Prices in Storage These chickens are shipped the nearest branch killed picked and put in cold The feathers bring a few cents a Cold storage chickens have sold during the spring for 12 to 19 cents a pound Quite often the costly broilers sold at the markets and served in restaurants as are really the younger and smaller chickens picked out crop and kept in 1 until the has 2 L parcels post or with any of s md means between the Middle the cities of Bast ier should be ahle to get a great deal can eat a chicken at i L Anybody can pick and j cheap the meat question would 4 V 5 4 points chickens tent directly to but not one-tenth chickens are raised miles of New York to sup-le local Like Mailed fresh laid do not amount to 1 of New York City's the genuine is to be compared Beyer no great deed 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