Show p att re s Why Steak ile tu n so much in fhe butcher shop OMAHA NEB JEB A 5 bull calf on the western nebraska ini ra aige e and fed grass and corn for rg 0 years as a steer will bring ris cents centi a pound on the omaha 6 bestock mar market ket and not PBS p price ifor a housewife to place on the 4 roller steak from that onetime one time legged calf she must pay 1 jr ic butcher 1 a pound av K laage age current price tor for beef loin res the trail a specific aber ten een angus bu bull 11 calf travelled be jre r he ended up on the dinner nl ate t e H he 0 weighed about 75 pounds at rth th and was worth worthy 5 in the it at year of his life he grazed n seven acres of grassland ate i 0 ut two tons of hay licked block isaim and underwent a de lexing sexing op ration in the second summer he had town into a pound steer and as ready to be sold to a feeder who specialized in cattle into beet beef on the adof the steer brought 16 cents round pound netting his former owner IH transportation costs tz the feeder paid to transit rt the steer by train to his home wn and 21 cents to truck the bimal 21 to his farm arm the feeder pt the glossy black animal 11 bontos ithe the feeder followed the amerlan meat institutes formula for kittening itt ening nin 9 the animal for each sounds bounds of grain seven hundred thirty two pounds f grain costing the feeder five cents pound 60 pounds of protein at 1 ax cents a pound pounds of lay ay at 1 cents a pound of silage at one half cent a UM aund and 84 8 days of outside pa pas 3 lire ire running 75 cents a month AL ss the cost of feeding insuring and tor for the critter was haking baking a total expenditure of 05 0 the feeder 6 steer gains weight ut uh the steer gained pounds to a 1 weight of 1320 pounds at pe E per hundredweight he reed limed a 68 per cent profit jr to the feeder arhe the carcass of the former 75 0 und bull calf yielded 68 pounds 1 if loin only 8 per cent of the dressed eight of pounds prorated that 8 per cent of loin oat it the packer at a whole tale ale price of 80 cents a pound the bin 1 brought the packer that money was for the cut of peat eat to produce steaks not pot bast boast or chuck the housewife paid the retail 1 irice of 1 a pound for a piece of denting neat e C t which two years ago depre enting per cent of the calf n the hoot hoof was worth about ahree ee cents |