Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-23

If not grubby, ETC., he may get $4.2o
for the hide. His quarters ought to
weigh 125 pounds apiece. OF the hind
quarters about forty pounds will be
loin. At 1914 cents this is worth -.
About fifty pounds will be round, at 10
cents per pound. or So. The soup bone
below the round will bring a quarter.
There will be about eight pounds flank
at 6 cents. or 48 cents. and ten pounds
of tallow at " cents --latest quotation)
or Is cents. He gets $11.SS for each
hind quarter, or $23.l6 for both OF
them.
The front quarters will cut up into
twenty pounds of rib roast at 10 cents
per pound. or 81; forty pounds OF
shoulder steak at 10 cents per pound,
or 81; twenty pounds OF plate meat a;
s cents. or s1.20; twenty pounds o.:
neck at 6 cents. or $12: the soup bone
for a quarter; and II he is an artist TO
cut it. and can catch sucker. he may
sell the shoulder joint (.en pounds) az
cents a pound. Generally. however
the pound or two OF meat on 1T goes
into bologna. and the bone into the
bone box. But II he gets SO cents FOR II
his front quarter will have brought
him 1896. or 20 cents more than they
cost him In actual business, however,
he has cut out enough bone and given
enough overweight to have made his
front quarters slight loss. II a butch
er does not give two or three ounces
overweight people think he is cheat
ing. and go to some other place.
He has sold his beef for 1850 and
n cost him s35. SO he has made $1,000.
He will probably sell three beeves a
week-a good business-and make
s32.4o. or about $3.50 a month. My.
he's getting rich. But in town where
he can sell three beeyes week o shop
and q slaughter house will cost $2o a
month. He can't get clerk for less
than $40 q month, and delivery boy
for less than $16 month. He will have
to keep two horses, but most butchers
keep more. 1t will cost $l2 month
to feed them. Ice bill cost Sc month
(s75 a year, generality and coal about
$50 q year. or S. month. II he has
not wasted scrap OF meat, and got
the cheapest help, he now has $3.50
less 3104. or $26 month for his work.
But he VIII have to pay for his paper
and string and city water and lights
and salt and seasoning, and thous-
and and one things, and at the end OF
the month he is in the hole II ne has
paid 3h cents for his cattle. II he
only pays IN cents heAcnn make a little
II he does not waste too much meat.
Meat win only keep in q shop q few
days. and 1t Is practically impossible
to keep some from spelling. Hogs at
the present price don't make man
cent. A hog Is supposed to dress on
two tifths, but in practice with the
bones Of the head and hyde that must
be skinned off, butcher loses a half
Figure up his profit yourself at the
present price of hogs. A butcher gen
orally makes a profit on the smoked
meat he buys from packers and sells,
tho there is an awful waste In slicing
hams. He will make on his weinies
If they do not mould, and If the dear
public does not eat too many Off the
counter while he is tying up their ten
cents worth OF beef steak.
If butcher can scalp cattle. and
raise a bunch OF hogs at the slaughter
house, IL he buys hides, and the farmer
does not wrap up to many stones in be-
fore they freeze, and If he gets to
butcher a good many hogs and cattle
for farmers, he can make living. I'M
less he gets too many bad debts.
A butcher has more bad debts than q
merchant, because--well, you just can't
see woman and little children go
hungry and you will trust them for
meat when you are almost sure the
old man will spend his cash at the
booze factory. Mostly the woman for
gets the butcher bill. too. except to tell
how that old butcher just charges aw-
full for his meat-and SO tough you
can't eat 1t either.
Almost every year I see farme-
coming to town and going into the
butcher business. II had farm and
wanted to get some show for 1t. I'd go
to shooting craps" but I'd never. never
go into the butcher business. You can
get loaded dice and win If you're lucky