Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-01-28
ANT|-MEAT
CHAMPAIGN
Prices Continue to Drop Both
in Wholesale and Re-
tail Stores
BOSTON CATCHES THE FEVER
1t Costs Ten to Twenty Per Cent
Less TO Live Than a Week
Ago

New York, Jan. 2S.-The effects of
the anti-meat campaign are still
strongly reflected in the local mar
kets today. Prices continue to drop
somewhat in wholesale and to great
er degree in retail shops. 1t is pre-
dicted that by tomorrow the market
ers will be able to replenish their
larders from ten to twenty per cent
less than a week ago.
Pork is Cheaper at Baltimore.
Baltimore, Jan. 2S-Pork today is
selling two cents a pound less than
week ago. Many of the larger
dealers report that meat sales have
fallen off 35 per cent since the cru
sade against high prices began.
Good Cause for High Price of Beef.
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 2S.-Lo-
cal cattlemen are of the opinion that
the present high price of beef is
largely due to a considerable increase
in the price of feed stuffs and to a
gradual decline in the stock industry.
Ike T, Pryor, up to a few months
ago president of the Texas Cattle
Raisers Association, when interview
ed on the question said:
There are several conditions that
have led up to the present prices,
i Taking all of them into consideration
it would appear to me that the cost of
meat is normal. In the first place the
consumer is no longer content with
low, or even average grades Of meat
| What he wants is the best In view
of the fact that the choice cuts on g
beef, for instance, are few this alone
would have tendency to force uI
the price. Feeding steers has become
a very expensive undertaking during
recent years. Formerly one of then
could be put in fine conul,.on for the
market for about $40 and sometime:
even $S-today it costs about $25 t.
fatten the animal up. The ranges re
: Gently have been poor and the pric'
of &C n has been constantly going up
Farms Abandoned.
Another factor entering strCngl.
into the question is the GENERALIZATION
of the people of this country in th'
cities and the resulting abandonment
of farms. For some time past every
, body has been rushing into the fac
tory and farming has been neglected
The price for cattle on the ranch ha
not advanced appreciably, though
: am not now prepared to say definite
ly what it's relation to the presen
: prices of beef are. According to al
| indications it is the price of feed tha
e is responsible for the conditions tha
: have led to the meat boycott in tn
y north and east"
e ]. T. Gibbons, manager of tn
= Houston Packing Company, expires:
Il ed similar opinions. He assigned tn
d scarcity of hogs as one of the cause
It of the high price of meat. The no
?. market, he said, had been SO poor fc
some time that Chicago packers ha
been obliged to pay 9 cents and owe
per live pound. Mr.. Gibbons attituC
towards the boycott was one of il
Il
1T is any mans privilege to elm
= nate meat from his table. Meat
no higher in proportion to any oth'
article of diet at this time. In n
opinion the agitation will be over
II weeks time
While top steers of about IL
pounds have recently brought as mu,
as 81 per hundred weight the ave
age price for them has been $3.50 al
= even lower at times. This price,
= course, means delivery at the stoc
yard. All shrinkage is borne by Il
shipper. The average fed steer W
I'd butcher at least 65 per cent saleat
meat, which at current prices pa
by the butchers would bring The pao
ing house about SS6 gross, or neal
twice the price paid for the stet
~ the 35 per cent waste, however,
in not all loss by any means, becau
ed from it are manufactured many of
3D. by-products of the packing house.
en- Boston Comes Down Notch.
by Boston, Mass, JAM 2S.-The agi
To- ton against the high cost of food
ce beginning to show results in BostC
lst The general decline in the price
M meats was shown in the market "
OF terday. The retail prices fell fro
ed two tn fo11r cnntc q nound