| Show Holidays Reduce Meat Consumption A holiday is just a holiday for th average salaried worker and few stop to think what effect our national holidays have upon trade in general However However How How- ever every holiday Is costly to the live stock and meat industry for in these days of automobiles and entertainment a holiday means that the average American housewife takes a day off along with ith the rest of the folks which means that there theres s h a tremendous reduction in the amount of meat sold cold by bythe bythe bythe i the retail butchers Take the Thanksgiving Day holiday period which we have Just experienced On every live stock market in the country there was was reduced buying power because of this particular holiday poultry is the most favored portion of the big holiday dinner After the choicest morsels are devoured in the Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving feast there ar are the less Jess desirable parts on the following day and soup or h hash h on Saturday This means that in the average American home there are three days when there is little or no beef pork or lamb consumed For the live stock producer it means that he loses three days' days buying power from the meat packer or distributor It means three days of very light business business business busi busi- ness for the meat distributor often entailing heavy losses The retail meat dealer Is not so hard hit as he makes up his lost volume in the standard meats by poultry If there Utere happens to be an average supply of live stock on the markets or oran oran oran an average supply of meats In hi the packers' packers coolers prices are depressed and tremendous losses are suffered in the aggregate The same silme condition holds true during the Christmas holiday period although there Is l a tendency on the part of many families to eat ed the choicest and prim prim- eat st beef pork and mutton available during that period Even with this appetite appetite ap ap- petite Increasing year by year demand for the medium grades of beef for Instance is lessened and medium quality beef makes up the bulk bulk of our supply |
