Show OPERATING CO 00 G TO T 0 GUT CUT MEAT COST rings wrings furnish animals for slaughter and members receive different cuts START IS HADE MADE IN SPRING slaughtering is I 1 done by man hired for purpose who usually receive receives fifth quarter for his HI pay no dividends paid prepared by the united states department of agriculture Arri Culture beef clubs or rings and operative cooperative co butcher are ano of the pluna plans being used by american farmers to reduce the cost of meat for their table tables tho the f m o operative butcher shop Is regarded as an outgrowth of the beet beef clubs which aich in varying forms hae been in oferall ope ralla ou for many years typical examples of the beet beef clubs hae hai e bea reported to the U S department part ment of agriculture from the lie coastal plain of south carolina many of the clubs have a membership of eight farmers but most of them hae sixteen operations of the club start x t 1 t anz 4 4 A k A it some somo amerl amerlean an san dressed beef in the spring when the first member on the list furnishes a beet beef for killing the slaughtering Is done by a nian tuan hired for the purpose and who usually receives the fifth quarter such as the hide little heart and ller as hit kiy the beef Is divided into as many parts na as there are members of the club tl TI 0 next week a second 13 ember furnishes the beef and so on for eight or sixteen weeks the various portions of meat being rotated among the fenbers so that balli goto gets a proportionate share of the choice cuts and of the poorer cuts ahe beef Is weighed after th ani ant mal mat Is s dressed and thus the pounds famished furnished by each member are known knon at the end of the season settlement Is mude by any members ulio mio have not furnished their full shares how plan developed ib an iowa farming forming community ob JM alon was found to thee beet beef ring A each household had to con sumo a stated amount of beef on stated days during the week in order that the supply would be disposed of economically this tended to make the beef diet monotonous and ultimately led to the amalgamation of the bett rings into a operative cooperative co butcher chop kach member owns one share of mock stock in the project and in alq hi turn f one head of cattle or as sheep or hogs an are desired for slaughter the members are credited with lie the dressed weight of the lire stock provided minus a of I 1 per tnt tent they receive coupon books loo 0 o in to value to the of meat furnished allotments bring apportioned equal in steaks mata and bolling each member is privileged to par pur liase as much or ss as little meat as he othes hes and at any time I 1 i can ansh in III on his coupon book at the ing prices surplus meat ii is old if to the local trade at fr ft irn n 5 to 7 rente lower pr per pound than the retail butchers charpe for similar cuts in rudes f meat it Is aped good meat required it Is that all animals be toe in prime marka condition when they are delivered at the operative cooperative co sho shop that they b be subjected ted to both ante niort era and post mortem examination and that the cantle must not be more than two bearis old id at th time of pl laughter like the beef ring rings meat dis organization ie Is strictly co operative and distinctly tinder under larmer farmer control it pays no dividend jo in fact th project Is so 20 manage that he the surplus ie in just enough to reimburse the britcher for hh bin service abad to cover operation |