Show L 1 0 ve f t aj k dam 0 situation JL LOS ANGELES Al GELES june 17 1929 standardization of meats as to quality size and even price may be one of the outstanding results and benefits of the growth of so called chain store markets all over the country chain stoics have built up their great volume of business largely as a result of standardization of products they distribute quite important as to uniformity of price and quality one of the national meat packers states that sixty per cent of his meat sales are to chain stores throughout the country apparently patently ly chain store merchandising is on the increase so the producer of meat animals may well give consideration to their demands the chain store man says that it is good business to carry meats of uniform quality and weight thus when the housewife buys four small P pork 0 rk chops for forty cents one day dav she toes does not expect to buy four pork chops for sixty cents the next time merely because the dealer have any small polk loins in his cooler neither does slie she understand why a round steak should cost forty cents one time and twice that much next time a natural result however where the dealer buys diffrient grades of beef and different sized carcasses from time to time the chain store market wants quality in small packages probably that is one reason for the increased popularity of lamb as the lamb growers have been developing a choice young lamb of uniform size quality and weight the chain store has had a great deal to to do with increasing the consumer demand for baby beef beca because tise of the good average quality lack of waste small cuts and fairly uniform scale of prices there is no doubt but that producers must continue their efforts towards better breeding so that thai the production of choice young cattle lambs and hogs logs may be possible the retailer is just as anxious to see a stabilized market as any one he sells his food products for about the same price week in and week out from year vear to year it is difficult to explain to the consumer why there ae should be great valia variation tion in retail meat P prices ric es from weel week to week chain stores and retailers a are re giving givin sc serious reous thought to stabilization of market values and manifestly in order to have stable retail values it is necessary to have stable values on the live animals at the stock yards some students of the trade are inclined to credit the degree of stabilization thus far realized to the great volume of chain store buying one great chain of markets in southern california is now restricting its beef purchases to well fed young cattle steers and heifers heffers hei fers weighing on tile the hoof from to 1000 pounds it is difficult to interest this buyer in weighty aged cattle even though of good quality manifestly it is impossible to produce this class of beef except through providing plenty of good feed from the birth of the calf to marketing time 6 cattle producers generally agree that the greatest profits lie in producing young cattle and developing them to marketable quality and a age ge in the shortest time p possible os sible thus effecting quick tur turnover noNer a and nd the least possible overhead in taxes wages interest etc the same thing may be said of producing to pound hogs in six or seven months the lamb producer has pretty well solved his production pro problem bIeni ably the only real danger in that field being the desire often to carry more ewes and lambs on a given amount of land than can am well wall be e carried without serious danger of w shortage of feed |