Show START PORK EATING SCHEME IN MISSOURI farm bureau in livingston county inaugurates inaugurated ates plan to encourage consumption an interesting and effective method of the consumption of 0 meat locally la Is outlined by D R forrester Forrest cr county agent in livingston county 31 Isso url livingston county tried out something last ear which I 1 believe should be commended to every county in the united states the farm bureau through the live stock shippers Bs established a retail meat market to deliver large pieces piece a such as hams sides and shoulders ot of pork to consumers at a low price the farm bureau loaned a revolve revolving fund of they hired a firering fIr fanner Tring er living north of town toan to kill hogs for 1 each and make the delivery at the same price it if no hogs were killed and delivered there was wag no overhead expense seven cents per hundredweight was paid to the manager of the Chilli chillicothe shipping association to locate and keep these hogs supplied to the butcher this pork was furnished to the consumers at frona from one half to two thirds of b the price it was being lug bold at local butcher shops in uie tile same sized pieces however after ills market was established the like loal cal butchers came down to the same hillme price an advertisement giving the price of meats and phone number was put la in three local papers and run tor for the four winter months killing and delivering was three times per week lind kery ery little expense was incurred in tile the marketing the farm bureau live stock shipping association meat market handled pounds of dressed pork this did not reduce tho the sales of the local butcher shops in tact fact tile the butcher chops records chow that flint they sold more inore inputs during december and january than they had during those months month in tiny any previous year the point here ts to that the main way to the consumption of tin an artile Is to seduce the cost coat to tin consumers the farmers were paid from 40 to bu cents hundredweight more for delivering their heir hogs to the association than ili alln y would receive by slipping slapping out on ohp market it wa us uil nt our intention to make monsy money in our operations here on tilt th ollier hand there wui practically to BO champ for lobs one of tile the loral butchers huttlin s wag waa quite panicky when we started this market and made the threat that he would break the con cern we sent him word it N was as broke to start with avith and there BUS no chance for loss in the operation after tile the first month of operation the local butcher got it out of his big lead head that his business wag as going to be hurt and some of the more fair minded men could see that the fact that meat was being advertised all the time really increased their sales we asked the county agents of two adjoining counties which had towns about tit the 0 size of Chilli chillicothe to make an investigation to ascertain whether their butcher sis sold more meat than in previous years from all information obtainable both the county agents reported ess esq sales in tile the winter of 1921 and 1921 than in previous years our butchers increased their sales |