Show farm home notes A few tips on how to buy beef can help to stretch the consumers food dollars says rudd san juan county agent lets look at a few facts first more beef is available now than several years ago seconds second cuts of meat from the front quarters of beef are much cheaper tha than n cuts from hind quarters fourth meat from front quarters is just as nutritious as from hind quarters fourth quality of the meat is essentially the same from front font and hind quarters but it needs to be cooked differently from other cuts consumers should know a retailer places variable prices on the different cuts of beef when a retailer buys a halt or whole carcass of beef from the packer he marks up the price to cover his costs and provide a margin of profit when cutting t the li carcass he knows by experience that steaks sell faster than pot roasts the retailer also knows he must sell all the carcass with in hi a short time or the meat will spoil so he prices steaks comparatively ively high and cuts from front quarters are priced lower in other words if consumers used more beef from front quarters retailers would reduce steak prices even more than they have in recent months A few of the cuts available at most butcher shops are chuck r roast boneless or with bone in short ribs rolled plate or flank arm pot roast or steak and neck boneless or rolled beef is back in large quantities and at prices that are low comoe makers should take ad vantage of this poisonous plants dangerous this year this years late spring emphasizes es the need for unusual care in grazing poisonous plant infested ranges warns oris rudd onty agent hungry livestock turned onto aring ranges before good forwe plants are well developed ire are in rave danger of becoming poisoned on the early devel nned poisonous plant species sheen are especially threatened by death camas a member of the lily family which commonly rows on foothill spring ranges chiq plant is not eaten by sheep under normal cond conditions tiong however during the early spring reason cason before much growth is made by other plants sheep are sometimes driven by hunger to raze death camas much th same situation prevails en cn spring cattle range where low larkspur is abundant stock should be kept off poisonous plant infested ranges until the slower developing forage plants have produced the necessary stock feed poisoning |