The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-07-19
STRIKE To BOOM
STOCK RAISING
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Merchants Should Now
sell Native Beef Ex-
clusiveIy
WOULD HELP GHIs SECHON
Prominent Citizen Thinks Local Butch
ers Could Build up the Cattle In
dustry IN South Georgia by
Selling Native Beef.

The great strike in the western pack
ing houses is attracting more than or
dinary attention in this section and
it is believed by many that it
viii be the means of establishing
new ana great industry in south Geor-
gia.
Many people of this section, a num-
Der in this city, have long since en-
deayored to get native beef sold ex-
clusiyely by the local butchers, and
now that the great strike is on and it
viii be almost absolutely necessary for
ali OF them to sell the native beef.
A prominent Brunswickian, familiar
with the meat business, in conyersa-
tion with News reporter yesterday,
talked interestingly on the subject
and thinks now is the timee for the
local butchers to adopt The plan to sell
native beef exclusively He said:
Il should like to see the matter TAX
en- up by the board of trade. said the
butcher If Brunswick people ate 10
western meats, cattle raising would
soon become one OF the biggest indus
tries in this section of the country.
and Brunswick would be greatly beh
ehtted in consequence.
Il remember the day when there
was not pound of western meat sod
in Georgia When it was hrst intro
duced you could not get the people
to take it, What accounts for its be-
ing used now? Why, simply that it
is easy to handle and can be gotten
al any time The butchers have fore
ed it on the people. With the excep-
ton Of very few lealers the native
meat is not sold here at all.
During the strike, the butchers VIII,
Of course, have to sell the native beef.
II they would all advocate the contin'
u8nce OF il after the strike Is over
it would be a great thing for the cat
tie industry in this section and the
people would get the sweetest, purest
and heallhiest meat.
There is no doubt about native beef
beng preferable Let all the butchers
sell native beef and continue to sell
il. and we will have an industry that
Will mean much for Brunswick and
this section Why. before western
meats were introduced here there was
quite large trade in hides and tai
low. All this has gone now.
when the Butchers Protective as
sociation was organized, the idea was
to buy home cattle. There were butch
ers in it then. Most butchers now are
not really butchers. they are mere
" meat cutters. The organization
now Is supposed to be on the same
line as was originally intended. but
they have all gone over to the packing
houses. They have not tried to help
the consumers.
The butchers simply don't want to
90 to the trouble Of butchering the
cattle. They themselves have injured
the cattle industry in this section by
using the western meats. And they
handle the western product simply be
cause il is less trouble. There is as
much, or more, money in the native
beef. for the hides and so on bring
quite a sum. Why before the western
meats were introduced the hides and
talIow trade was big thing here.
There is no need for the butchers
to say that the cattle cannot be Sc
cured. for it can. There is better
grade of cattle in this section today
than ever before. The breeds have
been improved a great deal in recent
years.
And the farmers viii be only toe
glad to raise more cattle and still
further improve the breeds, if th'
butchers will only buy from them. Th'
cattle business in this section shoul'
he ain immense industry 1t would be
too, If the butchers would use the ma
tive meat, which is better and health
Ier
4 do not expect to see Brunswick
have a scarcity Of meat no matte
now long the strike continues. Their
is cattle enough in the counties righ
around US to supply the home marke
indefinitely.
Right in Glynn county there az
probably a thousand head OF cattl
that could be bought by the butcher
The cattle in Camden county alon
would feed Brunswick for six month";
The Brunswick butchers should expe
ience no trouble in getting enough ca
tie to supply the market.
And it will be supplied with th