The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-13
NORTHERN BEEF IN THE SOUTH.


The New York Herald two or three days
since congratulated the people of its sec.
tion upon the fact that now in southern
hotels the bills of fare contained the item
of northern beef as something par ex'
cellence, and stated that it would be but s
short time until northern beet found It's
way into the private families of the south.
The Herald also proceeded to congratulate
the south upon its disposition to drop hog
and hominy' and begin the use OF food
more suitable for our climate. These
remarks of the Herald furnish
food for reflection, though it must
be- admitted Dcy contain truth
that is by no means credtable to our good
sense. Thoush we raise the finest beet in
the world snd in the greatest abundance, it
is notorious fact that our best beef upon
southern tables comes from the north. This
is, however, the identical beef which has
been shipped from the south, assorted,
slaughtered, dressed and sent back to us
with all the extra charges which such
changes would necessarily create. The
Herald omitted to say that the northern
beet" which the hotels advertised was
really southern beef, but perhaps it
ia better for us that the omission
occurred, as the fact discloses
the most inexcusable want Of enterprise on
the part of the southern people The
modus operandi is familiar to all. Our
herds are searched, the best beevcs picked
out and sent north, and we are compelled
to put up with what may be left if we de.
pend upon home dealers. In the north
again, these droves. are gone through and
3 ie best picked and sent to Europe. What
then remains is northern beef" some OF
which finds its way back to the south. In
tho meantime the people of our section hay
ing to select between mean but still costly
beef, or pork, choose the latter, and so use
the most unhealthy food they could in n
hot climate. Beef is the natural food of the
SOUTH while pork is only tolerable in cold
climates. But our butchers hold the miser.
able beef so high we are forced to use pork,
and then the butchers cry that they find
n poor market for beef IN the south, as the
people are welded to hog and hominy."
1t is their own doing. If they would
furnish our markets with the choicest beef
at such figures even as they receive in the
north, and dispose of the poorer specimen,
at what il is worth, at figures equal to or
below what porK costs they would find
large and ready sale. We, of the south, the
poor and the rich, prefer beef to pork, if
good quality can be obtained, or, if an inie.
rior quality even can be purchased at
reasonable and proper prices. While it is
perhaps true, that no beef is shipped back
to Texas, it is SO of other portions of the
south, and We notice that in Denver Col
orado, in the heart of Il magnificent cattle
they are importing beef from
Cheyenne and Kansas City. In New Or
leans they get south Texas beef, but far
better quality than any we get. The char
actcr of the article we have to use here and
the fancy prices paid, lead us to feel that
there ought to be good beef shipped here
IL is not for 1t is notorious that in this state
the greatest of cattle countries, we
cat the poorest kinds of meat.
La the face OF these facts We are asked to
pay for such as we get a price actually
higher than better quality goes for IN
eastern markets. Is it any wonder that
pork is eaten in large quantities, or that we
are wllingto pay the northern shipper a
to get good beef? And yet
men, with the proper exercise and
might, if they saw tit, reap the
same profits, The New York IIerald's re-
marks disclose the fact that here is Il large
field for some widc.awake men. Let them
canning and dressing establish
mcnts through the SOUTH buy the choicest
beet save frcights and time, aud stock
southern markets, and it will be but short
time before the hog, as an article OF food,
will be tabbooed, and southern butchers
will be forced to sell the proper food at
proper prices, or quit the business.
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