The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-30
BEEF EXPECTATION.
ness--Some Good Points for Cat
tie Breeders.

Beef in England" To-day we pre-.
sent an article from the New York
World, which is a continuation of the
subject.
The attention of Mr.. Eastman, a
leading exporter of American beef to
England and Scotland, was yesterday
called to an article printed in the last
number of the London Truth, which
article begins with the rather startling
assertion that "There are not half a
dozen butchers in London who do not
sell American beef, and who do not de-
fraud their customers by terming it
English beef"
las to the first statment," said Mr..
Eastman, II "a have no doubt that it
is correct. American beef is not only
sold almost universally by the butchers
of London, but it is sold in all the
principal cities as well. Neither do 1
doubt that some of them pass it off as
English fed Or town killed. In Eng
land, you know, people have their little
prejudices, just as many people have
here and everywhere else. In New
York there are many families who al
ways buy of butchers who dress their
own meat. They do this because they
think their butcher makes his own
selections from the herds and discards
everything that is not up to the highest
L afopdard Tn Enr1op nj nan,N1a ka~H nn
idea that the best beef is necessarily
that which has been fed in English
stalls. This being the case, the butch
er would naturally, we suppose, try to
get the highest prices possible for the
American article, and their only
way to do that is by calling it english
beef.n
"If it is true that the English butch
ers are charging e%xhorbitant prices for
American beef, your business will be
hurt, will it not?" asked the reporter.
"It would be naturally, although SC
far l cannot say that we have begun to
feel it. But this business is as yet COM
p%aratively undeveloped. At the same
time it has been so great a success that
only a very heavy blow would have any
effect upon 1t. Our business has been
steadily increasing, and this in spite of
all the sensational nonsense about our
beef being diseased"
"Have you taken any part in the
movement spoken of in this article
namely, to open a retail market in Lon
don where American beef is to be sold
at honest yet profitable prices?"
Il have had no hand in that, but l
did open a place of my own in Liver
pool for the same purpose. How
ever, 1 think the whole affair will reg
ulate itself If we allow it time. The
important fact is that we can raise beef
in America much cheaper than in Eng
land, and another important fact is
that the beef we are shipping to Eng
land is just as good as the domestic
article of England. These facts will be
found out in due time. After that the
English people will ask for American
beef instead of English beef, and the
result will be that the butchers will be
obliged to supply their customers with
the American article at honest prices"
"Do you mean to say that the Amer
lean beef you ship to England is as
good as any that can be furnished by
the growers of that country"
"There is a certain quantity of beef
produced in some parts Of Scotland and
England that we can hardly expect to
equal. But the supply furnished bythose
districts is limited, and it is hardly tobe
taken into account. Taking the two
articles of English and American beef
as you would ordinarily find them in
the shops, it would be difficult to dis
tinguish N from the other. Former
ly American beef could be told by the
slight tint left upon its surface by the
cloth used for wrapping. Now, how
ever, we wrap the quarters in a kind of
cotton made expressly for the purpose"
SIS the beef which you are shipping
to England selected, or do you take it
just as.it comes in the herds from the
west?"
SIT is selected, of course, and not
only is it selected from the herds, but
the herds as a whole are selected. We
send nothing to England but native
cattle, / mean those which come from
the lake states. We send no Texas or
Arkansas cattle to England. These
cattle run too much to horns and
bones, and no steer is fit for beef until
he has fed for a year on corn. Our beef
for the export trade is dressed with the
greatest care, and the result is that we
put down nothing but a prime article
at the docks of Liverpool, London and
Glasgow"
"It has been said that there has been
an effort on the pait Of English dealers
TO prejudice their customers against
American beefpn
Undoubtedly there has been. The
last thing in that line was tile pleuro-
pneumonia, and I don't think that
any body eve saw a case arriving here
from the west. Such a thing is un-
known there. There Is no doubt that