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Show OPEN DRIVE TD DEFEAT H. CI "Save Money on Meat" Week Starts in Ogden With Butchers Stocked Up Inexpensive Cuts Offered to Housewives, Costing From 5 to 20 Cents Pound Intending to call the attention of the consumer to the possibility of reducing living expenses by the use of cheaper meat evils, "Save Money on Meat" week started in Ogdcn this morning. Tho campaign is fostered by tho United Slates department of Justice in an effort to acquaint the housewife with measures whereby she may cut down household expenses by utilization utiliza-tion of the less costly meat cuts, especially those from tho forequartcr. It is Intended lo effect considerable saving without injuring tho wholesaler wholesal-er or retailor .or decreasing the prico paid to the farmer for his livestock. Wlllard Scowcroft and Dr. H. M. Rowc, fair prico commissioners for Ogdcn, aro conducting the local campaign. cam-paign. Meeting with the local commissioners com-missioners markctmen and butchors of Ogdcn agrco on a schedule of price that Is considered, reasonablo as follows: fol-lows: Chuck steak, 20 cents: pot roast, 17 1-2 to 20 cents; rib boll, 12 1-2 to 17 1-2 cents; neck boil, 12 1-2 lo 15 cents: soup bone, 5 to 10 cents: beef stew, 13 to 17 i-2 cents; ox tail 10 cents. By boiling tho choapor cuts, the butchers said, they may be made Just as palatablo and nutritious as tho higher priced meats. Postors illustrating the forequartcr cuts have been distributed about the city and posted at various markets and shops to glvo the women first hand Information as the various cuts. Market."? have agreed to stock up on inexpensive meats in unusual quantities, and the housewife should have no troublo in reducing their meat bills, it was said. Reports from the states in which tho campaign has boon held indicate indi-cate that consumers generally arc availing themselves of the opportunity opportuni-ty to save money on moat by purchasing pur-chasing tho neglected forequartcr cuts. Many housewives have found that by confining their purchases to the forequartcr their dollar will buy more meat. This, it Is believed, will lead to a more stable market for tho farmer's meat animal, Inasmuch as considerable of the meat from the forequartcr heretofore has not found Its way directly to the consumer':! table, but has been chopped or ground and sold to hotels and restaurants, restaur-ants, with consequent retardation of distribution, and increase of waste, shrinkage, and overhead expenses |