The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-01
READY TO CLAIM TT
AMERICAN MEAT Is SOLD UNDER A
FOREIGN NAME.
No London Meat Market Aristocratic
That il Cannot Afford to Sell Yankee
Beef Under the Title of s.Prime English"
or "Prime Scotch"-Present Foreign Ex-
clusion Based on Internal Political Con-
siderations and Not on Valid Sanitary
Grounds-Dspartment Figures on the
Meat Trade.

Washington, Feb. 2s.-Secretary Nor
ton, at the request OF the Associated
Press makes the following statement
regarding the meat trade of the Unit
ed States with certain foreign coun-
tries:
Export American beef is of such a
high quality that a parliamentary COM
mittee in England in 1898 reported that
in some Of the most fashionable and
aristocratic markets in London it was
frequently sold as prime Scotch and
English meat" In fact, the committee
said that in some of the large meat
selling establishments in the aristo-
cratic West End of London there was
practically no other than American
meat sold. Yet it was called Eng
lish' and Scotch"
The prices of American dressed beef
per hundred pounds at the Central
meat market of London on Dec. 81,
1894, were as follows: American beef,
killed England, s10.12iz to s10.s712 per
hundred weight; refrigerator American
beef, s1l.12Ia to s12.12la per hundred
weight for hind quarters, and for fore
quarters. $3.50 to $500.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain
received during the first nine months
Oh 1891, 0V0,SlU DtcI ITOIN the
United States and paid s26. 500, 900 for
the same. During the same year Great
Britain took 243.24t.0e0 pounds Of bacon
from the United States at a valuation
of SIC, 500. 900. For the nine months
ending Sept. so, 1894, the United States
exported into the kingdom Of Great
Britain 2,675.000 pounds of bacon as
against 100000 pounds duringw the
corresponding months of 1893.
iS hQHOn
trade between the United States and
Great Britain was increased about
145, 600, 900 pounds during the year 1894.
But during the year 1894 Germany
took from the United States altogether
of live cattle up to the close of Dec.
81, only 6,1S9 head; while France con-
sumed of American cattle in the same
period 13.4H head.
From Jan. 1, 1895 to Feb. 10. 1895 the
date of the last report made to the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
France had taken 1885 head of live cat
tie. During the calendar year of 1894
France took of American beef canned
and sailed 7.76S,S10 pounds at valua-
ton of 1921 $50. During the same period
of the same kind of beef Germany took
SS92.757.
During the six months ending Dec. Fl
Germany took of pork products ?.4S1 ,535
pounds and France received from the
United States of the same products in
thte same time 3,303,704 pounds. The
meat producers of the United States
send only the very best grades of live
cattle and dressed and cured meats to
the European markets.
It is claimed by the United States In
ternational dealers in meats that all the
hue and cry against the edibieness of
American meats, and all the charges
against the sanitary condition of
American live cattle sent abroad are
inspired by the land owning protection
lists of Germany and France. They de-
sire, it is said, TO make cattle and meat
higher in the German ana French mar
kets by making cattle and beef scarcer.
The herds of cattle and swine. Ii fact.
all the domestic animals OF the United
States, are in splendid sanitary condi-
ton. There has not been a case OF
pleuro-pneumonia in any of the United
States or territories during the last
three years. There is no contagious. IN
fictitious or communicable diseases now
prevalent among the domestic animals
in any state or territory in the Union.
There has not been and there will not
be shipped to any European port any
animal or the product OF any animal
which has not inspected and declared
healthy, wholesome and edible. The
United States will continue 70 furnish
all meatless Europe with the best and
cheapest pork and beef in the world.