The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-24

WORKS INJURY
TO STOCK
RA|SERS
BOYCOTT IN EAST AGAINST MEAT
DEALERS WILL HURT THE IN.
DUSTRY-DR. SAUNDERS SAYS
FOO MUCH MEAT is EATEN.

to the meat boycott which has been
spreading over the country on ac-
!, count of the increased cost of living,
W. H. Little, of the Little-Wetsel
Meat company, declared that the gen.
eral price of meat is no higher to-
day than it was a year ago. The
price of cattle is higher but there has
been no advance in local prices with
in the last two years, except on few
choice cuts. T-bone steaks and loin
steaks were advanced 21z cents in
price last spring. The higher prices
for cattle, he declares, is simply due
TO the great demand which has in
creased with increasing population.
while the supply has fallen off be-
cause 1t costs more to raise cattle.
Hay, alfalfa, wheat ana corn are all
higher than before and producers
cannot afford to raise cheap cattle on
high priced feed.
THE fruit business has driven the
cattle and sheep ranchers out of bust
ness here" he said, when asked for
local causes of the higher price of live
stock 1.-The Okanogan country and
the Colville reservation that used to
be covered with cattle has very few
now. The calves have been turned
into veal.
There is no trust deal now to ar
bitrarily raise prices as there was
few years ago. The advance in the
market is due solely to the great de-
mand as compared with the supply"
The Central Meat Market cutters
expressed practically the same thing
in regard to the local and general
causes for the rise in prices, adding
that 1.-The boycott will only hurt the
producers of livestock.
,.R. F. Keiser. of the Gem restau-
rant, says: THE prices of meat have
been up and down; pork is 4 cents
higher than it was at this time last
year. Considering the price that the
butchers have to pay for live stock
the price of meat has net been adj
vaneed. But meat is going to go
higher. The butchers have told me
that there will have to be an advance
as they can no longer secure native
beef to slaughter"
1--WE eat too much meat" says DR..
H. A. Saunders, speaking of the meat
boycott to combat high prices. 1--WE
make meat the main food and take
vegetables and relishes to make the
meat taste better. A. A. Stage, of
the University of Chicago, one of the
greatest athletic directors of the
country, won several of his athletic
feats on a purely vegetable diet. We
have three kinds of teeth designed
for masticating three kinds of food,
but we have made meat the chief arti-
Gle of diet"
Apropos of the movement, the Or
ange Judd Farmer says 1909 was the
most prosperous year ever known in
, the livestock industry, according to
&the annual census review of farm
stock
1.-The total value OF all classes of
livestock in the country on January
L, 1910, was $4,SS0, S,000," says
that paper. 1.-The increase during
1909 was the greatest ever recorded
In the twelve months, amounting to
s560,0o0, 900.
There is an increase in the num-
bers of all classes of animals except
beef cattle and hogs, showing an in
crease in average values per head at
the same time. Cattle, other than
mich cows. total 4S,7S0,000 head,
worth on the average $20.76 each.
The number of sheep is increasing
rapidly and now stands 54,726, 1000.
worth $4.07 each. Hogs showed a
marked decrease In number, reaching
only 44,ss6,0oo, but the price per
head, 1915, is the highest on rec
ord
with the exception of beef cattle,
every class of animals showed the
highest average price ever recorded. y