Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-01
AMERICAN BEEF ABROAD
This Years Hard Experience for Our
Exporters.
:. Order to Hold the British Trade
-..v Have Had to Sell Meat at Loss.

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,ta meantime the London importers
81 American beef have smiled rgrimiy
:, the sensational stories OF their ex-
.ar,ions" and have done their best e
duo the margins of their losses.
=, ;s ,rue that American beef has
cold in London at lower prices
NON the same beef would have orongh'
=, tho Chicago market on the DAY o.
H. sale 1t is also true thas prices
- fuctuated violently. these nuctu'
us being due, however, to condl
ap neculiar to the English trade and
not 10 any mandate Of those doiiiS In
no,,;nr A break or rise OF tHo GEMS
,,o,,ud within an hour is not rncom
e. IN ,h. great Smithfield beef mar
nv. a Jondon. The British butche
.ats IN sell out his stock eaeh day
ha seldom has cOnveniences 1or slorl
20 for holding over. The America
a,,,ob.r has his ice-box, ana IL the mex
y ~, cold today it can De SOLD v
- or the succeeding day, a
m,thIn any reasonable time. III pe
English market is overstocked or =
ne the price, and if there IS my
oo.rcitv I'D it goes; the business 10
80 done on the hand to mouth Fh-
- writes the English corresporehl
et,ba Passion Transcript. 4
! 20, wears the great American f''h
hons, firms have struggled frceiy
"a successfuIly for the British meat
IL In certain lines they hai Oh
lined almost monopoiy 1T -,
ale nrices. When beef goes u nv
sar the Englishman takes fiuiy -
a frogan beef or mutton of fsehliiia
y a., Australia, and the demar LOT the
me- extensive meat is WY re-
dued. on from
Il addition to this competoh from
a,a there is always meato pe op-
tatna from Scotland, Dentrk' Iioi-
Iondond other nearby plaS. AS on,
~ H. big dealers recent up $50 % u
II when the price of bee.pt' Up ~
Telegraph Offices near Srnn.
crowrd with men telegri'" -.
nearb sources of suppi TIT, .ot
all tn meat obtainable
arrives from here, ther ~ -. =.
where, and down goes -
q a regul,r see-saw.'
.,.;,,,, concls of the Uni
& o. -, ,a,,,ra,t their English
trade by the keenest lto
methods They have ~ -, az
trains ard entire sp ~ 49,, ~
vessels TO bring DO l,o,,o ,,,or-
freight. they have va Co..
gins and nave paicIe
meat shop; and me- - ,,.;th
carried god voiun " ,,;ac
them. They have ?hs" -
TO English butchefo '""t
could sell the Amet" ~, -
,i,fn,,.,,oa cept that it was
W SO To educate the
-. -, In boldly calling for
., 80 cad of preferring TO
- :. -. - leading name has
-. co, ,t,a fnuity of packing
49, ovnort, ,out success.
~, -. thu. price Of meat in
10 Irai+o, o., a rise due largely to
r,,o,I. ,,,i,l.. ,tage and a poor corn
-, Seless, for all tempor-
, ..,,n,,r.,,,, least: this great effort
,r,,,.a reign market. Every
- 80 ,,,. sold in England this
srn,,oo. t.,. orleans could have been
III less trouble and gen
ran,. ter profit The question
,,,,y,,l,. les as to why this was
done.
Mo-, a fine demand at big
nrhes al ne the packers had the
ehoioa Zen supplying that market.
sana;n,r chlrtered ships to Europe
empty. t'i,',,s 'i'''' i1''s 'i7i'
and u ''i' anu Se''s NJ
hardly. i trade drift away to others,
mr. Of ing enough meat and cattle
IN nd TO hold their trade and
kaan r people occupied even if the
pro,tyas sold ut times at a loss.
ofurse, there was no choice for
kee,sinesS men who We're looking to
thslre when beef would again be
- chi in the United States and for
1 eis;gde lwouid again become profit
al Thet have Kept enough live cat
tllng to England this summer to
oV about one-half the available
"a $ in their chartered ships. They
f''s llftlt W httB ttttii
don offices employed and to hold
nest of their trade. The many SEN
lohtt statements made in London as
u'e operations of the alleged beef
uSt taking advantage of the British
g. "At consumer are on par with those
iHen y people i'm the United States
SFo refuse to admit the great shortage
F.. III tHt meat gTlnnlN nr N i.si,
I, ",s threatened for several years and
= Y"'eh IS the result of natural and well
rNgnized causes.
ihe great American packing houses
accustomed to doing business on a
o'" margin. The recently published
n statement of one of the larg-
&C soncerns in Chicago. shows a net
~" less than three quarters of one
Unt IN the handling of. two hun
IN h'ihion dollars worth of what is
L. perishable product. This is
americans have secured the Eng
p "a ifade. They, furnish better meat
%wer prtSs. guarantee a regular
sTy, handle it more scientifically
|. greater pains to give the buy
H. ne wants., They expect lower
sr,s N the United States next year
n. Ek.ss,W.s' VINE development of the supply
sorr cattle and the more plentiful
Then they will again trade
"a, s a,d with a profit as they will
ibron'.,.e 3ost their hold upon a market
tmsh unwialingness to continue a
f'rl'y Improbable trade.