The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-12-30
AMERICAN BEEF IN ENGLAND.
An Immense Trade Growing Up and
the british Butchers PracticInE
Deception.

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English beef, while some of the poor
kinds of the homefed beef are bought
as imported American. The only place
where American beef is sold as such is
at the Metropolitan market, but lately
the consignees of the American bullocks
have tried to secure stalls for their sales
at New Leadenhall market.
Another curious fact which has long
been WITHOUT explanation is the price
for which American beef is sold In tue
British metropolis. 1t seems strange
that the meat Of Am~eriean-fed cattle
a be sold in London, after the ex.
pensae of transatlantic shipment, at 10
IL cents a pound, while in this city the
housekeeper has to pay from 80 to so
rents for the same amount of native
meat.
Mr.. NJ. H.. Gillett, Of NJ. H. tGillett
q Co., of Jersey City, who snip large
quantities Of beef to the other side,
said in reference TO the above facts;
When | was In England a short time
ago l saw a butcher sell a piece of Am.
erican beef as English beef. / asked
him why he did not tell his customer
1t was from America, and he told me
that the customer would not have
bought 1t. "Our customers want good
hold Henglish beef " he said to me,
and l have to sell it to them as such.
That man has just gone out wanted a
piece like that which he had last week.
IL l told him the piece he had last week
vas American beef he would not have
believed me. / know that meat hung
in a cool place for ten OF twelve days is
better than that which was slaughtered
yesterday, for sale Tomorrow, as our
English beef is. but you could not make
my customer believe that. There is no
English beef as good as the American
that comes to us, but l dare not say 30 or
| would lose my customers; so when they
call for the cheap American / give them
poor British beef, and they do not know
the difference
WAS there any effort made to pre-
vent such ideas spreading among the
people" said the reporter.
"Yes; the greater part of the meat
shipped goes to the metropolitan mark
ct. 1t was advertised az American
beef, and n good trade was secured !; but
what is n market in the city of Lon
donP This beef was bought by retail
butchers, and much Of it is sold us good
hold Henglish beef, you know"
For what price is American beef
sold in LondouP"
For from 10 to II cents per pound,
or a cent or a cent and u half less than
the English beef. This is quite sunici-
ent to control the retail trade"
What Is the reason the meat is sold
so much cheaper than in this cityp
What causes the difference in price ?'''
THE difference is more apparent
than real. III this country meat is cut
up under the rules OF the butchers as
ISOLATION. The result is If you wan u
piece OF %sirloin, or the round, or the
shoulder, yon ask for and get it. But
in England meat is cut in the most
curious way you ever saw. A side Of
beef is cut into pieces of five, ten, fifteen
or twenty pounds weight. Neither
bone nor fat is removed except the fat
about the kidneys, People when they
buy meat do not ask for a piece of the
round or the s%irlOin, as we do; they ask
for 30 many pounds of beef. 1t does
not seem to make any difference what
part Of the animal the meat comes
Beef's beef in their opinion. l
have seen a line of people standing out
side "a butcher shop waiting their turn. |
Inside were men cutting meat Into CIV
EN- weights and cutting withot any ref
erence to the part the piece came from.
There were two men selling and taking
the money. All the beef, bone and fat,
was sold at the same price. You must
remember that there is not very much
tine meat in a bullock-take one weigh
ing 800 pounds, and from it you will
not get much mure man 125 pounds of
fine meat. Now, while the butchers in
country charge 30 to 40 cents for
hne beef, they are obliged to take out
part of the bone and a part Of the fat,
and they sell tue coarse meat for much
less than 1t is sold in England. You
can buy irst-class corn beef from 8 to
II cents, or IA shin. bone 8 to 6. In
England you would have to pay from
Ia TO 16 for these. or course, If a man
knows how to choose meat he can get
good beef cheaper in England than he
can here, because IL be sees a good
piece hanging up lie can take it at the
price he would pay for a poor
piece. But suppose a lady were to send
TO her butcher for a nice roasting piece,
and she were to receive a cut from the
shoulder, she would say hat the man
had treated her shamefully. Now an
English lady in such a case would.not
think anything about it. You can
EASILY see that II you can sell the whole
bullock for 12c a pound, you will make
IS much as you will when you sell a
for three times as much, and