Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
BUTCHERS AND PACKERS.

The butchers of st. Paul with their assist
ants, number 81, and the packing houses
employ GO men, total of 162. The former,
in their neat shops, are to be found in every
part of the city. The packers, working for
The wholesale trade, have until now been
limited in their operations by the lack of q
supply of hogs within profitable hauling
distance. The extension of the railroad sys-
tenn and the greater attention paid the last
two years to stock raising by farmers of the
central and southern parts of the State has
given them through the season just closed n
larger supply of hogs than was anticipated,
but the advance of prices which set liz soon
after the packing season opened deferred
some from buying, in the hope of fall of
prices, except just enough to fill current,
orders. In January, 1879, dressed hogs
were selling in this market ct 1915 to Sc
per cwt. and mess pork at 81, so per barrel,
In December last hogs ays.ageI about So
per cwt. and mess pork abo1. $3.50 per
barrel with the demand fog the latter
quite up to the supply. One nota-
BILE feature of the seasons operations
has been the increased proportion of live
hogs brought to this market In fact it was
the first season in which any considerable
number of livs hogs were shipped to st. Paul.
The average quality Of the hogs markell
here is very good, and it is remarkable fact
that the hogs raised in this latitude ere
wholly free from the diseases common and
dangerous among those raised in southern
Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and along the Ohio
valley. Butchers and packers here are all
agreed that they never knew of a case of in
fictitious disease or trichin@, or of any sort Of
epidemic among Minnesota bred hogs. Until
lataly our farmers generally held that they
conld not afford to raise hogs for marketing,
bat experience has shown them that the extra
care required here and the extra cost Of
feeding and fattening-as compared with
southern Iowa and Illinois-is more than
made up in the market by the superior
weight and quality of tho
meat. The supply of beef
has also until lately been quite limited, but
this season Minnesota stock breeders will
sell thousands of beeves to Chicago packers,
because the economy of great packing houses
enables the packers to pay better prices than
butchers will ordinarily give and, further
more the packers are at all times needy to
take all choice cattle offered. In addition to
the increasing home supply an unlimited
number Of cattle may be brought from Mon
tana. Several thousand head of Montana
cattle were marketed and shipped here last
season, and the extension of the Northern
Pacific this year to the Yellowstone with the
establishment here of proper stock yards
and packing houses-and market-will
bring here twenty to forty thousand head of
Montana cattle every season. In connection
With the stock yards will be found further
mention of the packing houses which are
probably to be built this season In time to
begin operations in October next. Our list
of butchers and packers is as follows:
MEAT MARKETS.
R. @, AcIy & Co., Al Robert, hands.
Theodore Beulke, 159 East Seventh, 8.
N. Delaney, 1856 West Third, 8.
George q. Dyer, junction of Washington and
Market, 2.
Hiram Dyer. l1S Rice, 2.
John Egan, 70 Minnesota, 2.
John Ebert, II East Seventh.
J. F. Eisenmenger, "a East Seventh, q.
Louis Eisenmenger, 115 Wabashaw, 4.
Gottschammer y 90, IA East Seventh, 8.