Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-14
SOLVING THE BEEF PROBLEM
Corn Show Will Teach People Science
Of Cutting and Buying.
SHORTAGE MOSTLY DUE TO WASTE
PrOducers' Association Conducting
Campaign Of Education 60 Cor
rect Abuses that Are Menac-
ing and Aids Corn EXPO.

Solution OF the shortage OF beer prob
lem is to have a large place in the scheme
OF education promulgated by the domestic
science department of the National Corn
exposition In Omaha in December. How
to treat cattle and how to treat meat so
as to improve and perpetuate the breed
and increase the production and domestic
utility Of the beef are the principles to be
fostered.
Tn Beef Producers association Is go
ing to cooperate with the National Corn
exposition in this important work. Cen
eral Manager Sturgess Of the exposition
is in receipt Of a letter from Fred P.
Johnson of Denver. assistant secretary of
the association, advising him Of the eager
desire Of that association to aid the ex-
position in this undertaking. The work
will be promulgated largely through the
domestic science department, OF which
Miss Jessica Besack Of Columbia univer-
sity Is dean.
'Tis n Grave Problem.
Both General Manager Sturgess and Sec
rotary Johnson are endeavoring to i'm
press on the people the Importance Of this
work.
Beef shortage is a graver problem than
people realize says Mr.. Sturgess. 1T
will take a systematic course Of education
to solve the problem. Not only is it neces-
sary to increase and improve the breeds
of cattle, but it is equally as important,
II not more so. to teach the people who
use meat, how to buy it and how to use
It. We waste too much of a beef. We
know nothing but two grades, the loin
and ribs. Every part of the beef is good
and should be used and must be used II
! ah1. 49, L. -.-- -.I--aI AHI me -~,
pose to set in motion a system Of educa-
ton that will sweep over this country and
end in a tidal wave of enlightenment and
the ultimate solution Of the problem, which
today Is really menacing."
Campaign of Education.
Along these Identical lines Mr.. Johnson,
in his letter to Mr.. Sturgess, says:
Apparently the country is confronted
by a shortage of beef"
a" . The object Of the Beef Produc-
ers association is to conduct a campaign
of education to encourage breeding and
feeding of cattle. II the people are fam
iliar with the situation It must certainly
result in putting a stop to the indlscrimi'
nate slaughtering Of calves and spaying OF
heifers. Here in the west cows are already
advancing very rapidly and I would not
be surprised II next spring cows are moi
worth as much as steers.
" . 4" 1 believe the threatened shortage
is much more serious than appears on thu
surface at the present time.
1--WE are arranging as part of our cam
paign to ~inaugurate some publicity work t
educate the beef customer. You know
that the average American labors undel
the idea tina all there is fit to eat on {
beef carcass is the loin and ribs. We arr
interesting the domestic science schools o
the country in devising recipes for cookinl
and preparing the cheaper cuts of the beef
The prices Of loins and ribs is advancing
so steadily that unless something OF thi
kind is done the large majority of tn,
people will have to stop eating meat soon