Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-21

the past four years:
CHICAGO.
Esifs1R5a. ssii 10 S55s 'Sis s5s 5
Neasins ior p1cA1 15sl55 1,57ssn 1sn
KANSAS CITY. KANSAS.
E gsIsagss,; 1851 a 3 e 1855 &: ls 5$ss
heasins ioi 'lo2is i2Qs2I Is52
Receipts at the two principal points,
Chicago and Kansas City, Kan, show
an increase in 1888 over 1855 Of so per
cent Current price beef cattle and beef
product az Kansas City. Kan:
Week December. 1885 December, 1888:
Beef hams. bbi-...-..--.'5l2.25 Sll-2}
Bb beef ..........-.....-. '.9I 90
T8llow per lb.-........-.....- ~ -
ca 5 common to good 4.9s to is 275toss5
Butchers steers. 49,. 500 toSs5 Z.5J to- -
Taking the current price of beef prod
uct December, 1885, and December, 1888,
compared with price of cattle same time,
it will be seen they were bringing more
money relatively in 1888 than in 1885
Supply and demand, however, at all
times regulate prices except when the
enemies OF society corner provisions and
wiring the life blood of the people. The
market for your 34,000,0 900 cattle cannot
be kept up merely by your local butcher
dealing out beefsteak. The fallacy of
this idea is thus shown by an observing
journalist:
Hamper and restrict your dressed
meat men and your market for half
these vast herds will be ruined.
Your local butchers can consume
but a small per cent of the vast
cattle crop of the country. Cat
tie prices have only been kept as high as
they are through the influence of the
large dressed meat establishments that
through their facilities for economically
handling of cattle and for distributing of
their beef product to ali parts of the
globe have furnished market for hun
dreds of thousands of cattle that must
have been held at home and slaughtered
for their hides and tallow.
These beef houses are content to take
the otfal for their profit. and grow rich
off of what the local butcher must
waste.
Take the item of tallow, which is only
worth to the country butcher in market, |
after paying the freight, $50 TO $50 per
ton. The dressed meat man makes his
into cleo oil, which is worth $3.50 to slTj
per ton: bones with the dressed meat men
are saved and sold for so per ton; with
the country butcher lost Horns with
tie dressed meat men are worth $50 per
ton: with the country butcher lost !
Hoofs with the dressed meat men are
worth $50 per ton, with the country
butcher lost. Neatsfoot oil and glue
stock with the dressed meat men are
worth s35 per ton. with the country
butcher lost Blood with the dressed
meat men is worth s3J per ton, and the
entrails, after all the fat is rendered out.
are made into fertilizers and sold at sl7
per ton, with the country butcher lost.
Does all this saving count for nothing
in the sale of the farmers cattle: Most
assuredly he gets its benefit Farmers
and feeders in striking at the dressed
meat men are striking their best friends,
and with their destruction destroy the
goose that lays the golden egg"
Brass Enough TO start Bell Foundry.
The Ben made q snail advertising con
tract the other day. The add was to go In
thirteen times, top column. next 20 poetry,
following and preceding pure narTiage-no- |
tees, paper sent regularly daring life Of
contract, elec.rotype used. failures to in
sert made up, editorial mention, electro IN |
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