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Show ! jSSENGERjnd EXPRESS Passengers to depot - GOc Trunks -. 50c and 75c Express - - 10c Satisfaction Guaranteed, A. flladsen & Son ! X A y n I j I .V 1 J I AND 1 1 HOLIDAY GOODS FOR THESE, IT WILL PAY YOU TO GO TO 1 v- o y i si JL W j3 CENTERFJELD - - - UTAH 'j" " """""""" " . 'j I . - s cAV i: (i Jp F:k;li.x; : C:::...S i 1 i Low Meat Prices j j If thc farmer cennot get enough for j ; his iive stock, he raises less, and the j packer gets less raw material. ; i: ; ! If the consumer has to pay too much j- , for his msat, he eats less of it, and ths ; , packer finds his market decreased. 5 I The packer wants the producer to :) ret enough to make live-stock raising ; ' profitable, nnd he wants the price of meat j so low that everyone will eat it. : But all he can do, and what he would j ini'e to do in any case to stay in busi- j ncss, is to keep down the cost of pro- j cessinfj the fanner's stock into meat so that the consumer pays for the meat and ; 'j by-products only a little more than the ' :j f.uTncr gets for his animals. Forexample.last 5'ear Swift & Company j paid for its cattle about 90 per cent of i ' what it pot for meat and by-products t (such as hides, tallow, oils, etc.) j If cattle from the farm vrrre turned j ( miraculously into meat in tho hands of retailers (without going tJircufh the ex- j pense of dressing, shipp'rvr and market- ; injj), the farmer would yet cniy about j '$ cents per pound more tor his ca'.'.'.e, : or consumers would pay only about ' j cents per pound less for their beefl jj ; Out of this cent or two per pound, jj Swift & Company pays for the operation ij of extensive plants, pays freight on 'meats, l operates refrigerator cars, maintains I-. , 1-. ti,,,,oar .-.fs1 if macf r-acoc Ho- id ; h . ers to retailers all over the United : States. The profit amounts to only n f fraction of a cent, and a part cf tSis ; ! profit goes to build more plants, to give j bettor service, and to increase the com- I ' parry's useiulness to the country. f Swift & Company, U. S. A. t I ! j |