The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1876-10-10
$115.30$105 90

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Leaving you Il balance of 5000 for
your labor, risk, and the grass and hay
she has eaten. 1t don't look very biz.
Well let us see what Mr. Cleayer
will make out of her. She will proba>
bly, weigh 800 lbs when fat, so that
she should turn out about 400 lbs. of
salable meat, 100 of which would sell
at 90 cents per h.. 100 lbs. at Is cents,
100 lbs. at 10 cents, and the balance
at cents, making $50 for the carcass,
then say IS for the hide. and SO for
the fat, making in all $5S; deducting
the cost of the COW would leave him
$50 for his labor and expenses. Now
you see why il is that SO many old
COWS find their way into the borough
market. MIR. Cleaver finds that he can
make profit of $40 on an outlay of
S2o, or over fifty per cent, on an old
COW. While in the case of good
steer his profits are at considerably
lower per centage. Is it any wonder
thatthe Changers are SO opposed to
mlddle-men, when they see them in
one or two days making more off of
one OF their animals than they can
in year. Here is a heavy percentage
on the cost OF provisions, a large po1-
ton OF which should 30 to the produ-
Ger or consumer, or be divided be-
tween them. The butcher should be
well paid Tor his labor and services
but ono-torth OF these profits should
satisfy him. In giving the above
prices we have endeavored to stale
them as near those obtained us Uossi-
bic. We find that there is Il great
dlllerehce, IN the price of the same
piece OF meat in market to different
persons. The butcher generally knows
his customer who Will not pay IS
cents for the best cuts, ssdnd So hc
| places them in the basket at 20 cents
without word. While stranger is
compelled to pay the top price. he
fact that farmers in this part of the
country have almost quit feeding cat,
| tie Tor market as a business, shows
That they have found that it is impos>
| sible for them to complete feeders
on the low priced grazing lands of the
lar west. We have been forced into
more active farming by circumstances
| beyond our control and we now only
feed our old COWS off for the butchers
when they no longer pay in milk and
butter.
Many of us are working our lands
very hard by keeping from thirty to
forty head of COWS in farms that ou1
fathers thought well stocked with
twenty head of steers, but the profits
are SO light on each COW that a small
number will and pay expenses. While
the farmer has for some years beer
living from hand TO mouth hardly able
with the strictest economy and con.
slant hard labor to keep square with
the world, the butchers of our neigh
boring borough by contriving together
have managed t, make a practablt
living as middle-men between the
producers md consumers of flesh.
The business of butchering ha,
heen kept so profitable by this comb
nation that twice the number of mer
find support in it that the business
would warrants if uncontrolled by +
ring. There appears to be 40 compe
tition among the IN in buying. e yo,
have some COWS ready for sale YOU
get a bid from one OF them that a
once seems TO shut of all others. |
one OF the fraternity dares TO sci
meat ut less than the fixed rates he is
at once ostracsed. In selling meat in
market there are but few OF the rougl