Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-12
THURSDAY, JANUARY IL.
HOW TO CONDUCT A BEEF RING.

A beet ring 10 union OF FARMERS
for the purpose of supplying them.
selves with fresh meat each week
at low cost. The ring usually has
16 members, who supply the ami
mails in regular order, one each
week. A meeting is held in winter,
when an organization is effected,
the order of furnishing the animals
decided by lot, and butcher and
secretary appointed. The butcher
(who need not be professionally u.s.
ually receives s. per head for his
service. Each member in turn
brings in his animal, young and
fat one dressing from 400 to 500 lbs.
"A hours before it is killed.
TOOLS REQUIRED.
A finch curved SHINING knife
at 81 cents an S.inch straight stick
ing knife at 80 cents, 14-inch steel
at 81. 2S-inch meat saw at 81, a
caudlestick scraper at % cents, and
an ak are all of the tools really es-
septial to rapid dressing. Some
means of raising the carcasses of
beef from the ground or floor and
place to hang the lighter animals
should also be provided. What
these arrangements shall be depends
largely on the amount of work to
be done and the circum stances.
A block and tackle with 6-inch
pulleys will answer the purpose
very well where they may be had
and a suitable place is at hand for
suspending them. In its absence
various appliances may be used.
THE BUTCHERS DUTIES. "
The butcher provides suitable
place for killing, furnished with
a hook for each member. He kills
the animal in the evening and cuts
it's up in the morning, weighs each
share, hangs it upon it's respective
hook before a. m. and gives hide,
head, heart and fat to the owner of
the animal. He keeps an accurate
account of the weight OF each ami
NAL and of the quantity that each
member receives per week. Mem
bers come for their shares the
morning after it is killed, and each
receives boiling piece, roast and
a piece of steak each week, and re-
cieves the different cuts in rotation.
That is No, cut goes to No, l man
the first week to No, 2 man the sec
ond week. etc.
DUTIES OF SECRETARY
The secretay acts as valuator in
case an animal is thought by the
butcher to be below standard quail
ity. At the close of the season he
takes from the butchers account
the quantity received by each men,
Der and presents statement of this
and of the WEIGHS of the animals
furnished and the price per pound
Of all. HAS animal weighed 400 lbs.
and he during the season received
t25 pounds, he must pay for the %
pounds received at the rate of6 cent
per pound if all the beef has been
up to the standard. If B. furnished
an animal that is decided to be
worth only 5 cents per pound and
all the others are up to the stand
ard. he is charged 6 cents for all
meat received, except the cuts he re.
cieved of his own animal, which
will be charged to him at 5 cents,
and all the other members will be
charged at the rate of 5 cents for
B,s beef. If a member receives less
han the weight of the animal fur
nished, he shall be paid for the
amount he is deficient at the rate
At which his animal was valued.
THE ADVANTAGES.
The above is the way in which |
beef rings have been operated in
one township for number of years.
Il is simple, easily worked and |
gives good satisfaction. The ad-
Tantages are: Farmers have fresh |
meat at first cost; fresh beef is al
ways wholesomer than salt pork,
saving much suffering and
perhaps doctore' bills as we'll. Far
ners' wievs who have fresh meat at |
hier command have less labor and
more pleasure in preparing the
meals than they otherwise would
iave,cW. S. Fraser.