The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-17
BEEF GOES HIGHER TO STAY.
HIGH-GRADE SUPPLY NOTLIKELY
TO OVER7AkE DEMAND.
Fork. Bresdstuns. Potatoes. Apples All
Higher and the Cost OF Living Raised
No Reef Famine IIkely-Means by
Which the Product Can ne Increased.

products which has made the cost ofnving
eppreciably greater. Those who have
rot paid more for their beef. for instance.
have noticed its slightly poorer quality.
and yet there Is the word of the whole
talers and Of others Interested for the
statement that the retail butchers have
heen loath to advance their prices la ac-
cordance with the plain indications OF the
market OF supply, and even the dictates
of business sense. The salesman Of one
large wholesale establishment and packing
house has been fairly boarding his GUS
toners in a way statesmen are not won
to do and saying to them:
why, you are not in business for your
health! You are inexplicably foolish
The retailers who have called forth this
rebuke are in two classes. those In business
on a small scale who are afraid to make IN
open advance In their prices lest the COM
petitor on the next block got their trade,
and more important dealers who share
with smaller men a feeling that the urgency
to higher prices is the work of the Beef
Trust" and that II In therefore hateful,
and, moreover, bound to be more OF lees
temporary If only strongly enough resisted.
The retail butchers. however, have with
iio DdTFhAk "a Ohf W. eAN "
to realize that the condition OF higher
prices confronting them is a very real
one. They have. therefore. advanced
prices somewhat or -evened up by furnish
ing a poor er quality of meat.
Not onl y meat Is higher. Here are some
headlines from market reports: Eat
Cattle Advance .Breadstufs Higher,
More Active Markets" Provision Prices
L;-..x- ~ r,,,,I rsfhniDa p,l,. u;,har "
String Beans Scarce, Celery Eirmer, Sweet
Potatoes higher" Higher Prices for
Potatoes Wheat and Oats Higher
Flour Firmly Held on the Advance in
Wheat
II is in beef. however, and hog products
in which the rising prices ave been most
noticed And this brings the Investigator
10 the partial failure of the corn crop. IL
II "a id among farmers II packers that tho
usual calculation is that for one bushel
Of corn fed there is derivable eight pounds
OF merchantable pork. With an average
price Of o.. cents for pork. the farmer
has a total Of "a cents as returns from his
bushel Of corn fed to the hogs to set against
20 cents which his corn would command
in the grain market. Therefore. the farmer
had rather sell his corn than rHise hogs on il.
and had rather raise more corn than more
hogs.
Sim lila rly, Tower cattle have been raised
for beef in the great West. because the
farmers found II more profitable 20 devote
their lane To grain. In some parts tho
-cornstalk' disease has depleted the supply
Of cattle. On the great ranges there are
heavy losses in winter, when no systematic
care is X as TO housing. All influences
If this order working together have wrought
n shortage in the available supply Of beef
cattle for the markets such that high and
higher prices are inevitable, according TO
all experienced observers. And The state
ment il made upon authority, not "a "A pre-
diction but Ar a record of fact. that Tire
prices OF beef are destined TO increase still
more and 20 maintain their higher level,
for the reason that It Is no longer possible
the great range being nov limitod-tor
the supply of high-grade beef cattle ever
again TO overtake the ever-increasing
markets Of home and abroad.
There have been statements limiting AZ a
possible scarcity OF beef. which should
force small butchers TO shut up shop and
prevent the poor from buying meat thIOw-
ing them back upon chee-e more largely
hut this Is not seriously regarded h. we'll
Informed quarters. Again. ways are
pointed out 10y some jouru ali ofthe Western
country whereby tbs cattle stock may 10
greatly increased by systematic ofort.
The Denoer Republican. considering a
Possible Scarcity of Beef save. No one
should become alarmed about the pre-
dicuon that there il danger Of "A beef famine
~ this country which viii cause the pnco
of beef 10 20 beyond the reach Of people
of ordinary means. No doubt IN supply
from the Western range II smaller th.ul
il was several yeaIp agO. nut this vii toe
corrected 10 the courra 81 utne. Aud, be
side. the farmers Of Tire Mis-IssIppl aId
Missouri Valleys can greatly % tho
Humbe Of heel cAtuu -" tufning Their
attention 10 tbs business.
The 'h2Ttas. IN ns ,ans' rssioP Sn rl.rs
,t1'k.ng -oTe Tract of rra,1 !ani have
b--n r-dncrd u q desert lie 'ondiuon
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