Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-10-29
HAMPTON, PHOEBUS AND Old POINT-Contin
CONSUMPTION or MEAT
An Interesting Report on the
Subject Has Been Prepared
by Department of
Agricultu. re

An interesting report on the supply
of mca, in this country has been made
by the Agricultural Department. which
as the foremost conclusion of it's In
vestigation. announces that there are
fewer meat-producing animals relative
ly 10 the population of the country
than in 1910 In othe- words, while
the number of animals In the country
has increased, the population has in
creased at a more rapid rate. and the
conclusion lis natural that the PEI.
(capita meat consumption OF the Amer
lean people has fallen far below what
it was in 1910. In fact the statement
is made that meat today makes III
only one-third of the dietary, as
against probably one-half in 1910.
Naturally. vast quantity of stats
ties of various kinds have been com
piled to allow of these conclusions be.
ing arrived at Thus the number of
mcatproducing animals slaughtered or
exported in 1900 is placed at % 500 900
which contributed l6549.92l 600 lbs
of dressed weight Not all OF this
was actual meat: in fact. the weight of
bones and trimmings is placed mt one
fifth OF this. making the net weight of
edible meat available at ll,241,2 42 900
pounds. In addition to this dressed
meat product there are other prod.
ucts. such as livers. hearts. tongues
and othen products, which aggregated
1855 100000 pounds in weight auo
these added to the net edible meat
supply make II total supply of edible
product of 15S70.SS9,0 900 pounds. or If
flR Wnirlt nG ~, 81, l..
added, total of l9.1S6.33O 600 hounds
of meat entering into the domestic OF.
foreign trade lust what these sta.
tistics mean when applied to tho aver.
age family is shown ~ further calcu
lations
The average private family in laOC
contained 4.G persons and this family
consumed S55 pounds of dressed meat.
or $3.50 pounds of ali edible products.
Ii is also figured that the average
family bought of edible or other meat
products, in all. 1.0l4 pounds or n
little over half a ton. Furthermore
1t is found that of the meat consu.np.
tion. beef and veal constitute AZ per
cent mutton and lamb per cent and
pork 40 per cent Investigation of
meat prices by the Bureau of Labor
'H''4N ti''t hSo ouOMtu iUui Tile aver
age price of meat per pound paid by
consumers In 1900 was IL ga cents.
II cents in 1901; - l-2 cents in 1905.
and - "a or possible IA cents in
1906. 1t follows that the retail meat
bill of this country was s2,052 279.On
in 1900. and about S2.3O4 900. 900 or
more in 1906. Every increase of n
cent per pound in the national average
retail price of meat raises the total
yearly expense to consumers bv S16S..
100000 There are given in the repor;
also some returns of meat consump
ton per capita in this and some other
countries. In this country the con.
sumption per capita is placed at 1855
pounds of meat In terms of dressed
weight. The per capita consumption
OF meat in the United Kingdom IS
1913 pounds: Germany. 9S.7 pounds;
France, 70 pounds; Italy. 1915 pounds:
Australia. 263 pounds; New Zealand.
212 pounds; Cuba. 1si pounds: Swed-
en-, 62 pounds: Belgium. 20 round.
and Denmark. 76 pounds-Brad
streets.