The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-26
MEAT FAMINE is COMING.

supposed to know what they are
talking about that this country will
experience next winter the greatest
shortage of beef in it's history.
Prices, which already have advanced
25 to so per cent. in year, are to
be 10 to 13 per cent. higher by jan
uary 1. Meat will sell at unheard
of figures.
Forty cents a pound for the choice
cuts seems certainty, 40 cents is a
probability, and even so cents pos
sibility before spring.
The causes leading to the meat
famine are graphically described by
the New York Sun which says that
1.-The corn killing drought in Kansas
and neighboring States has deprived
the cattle raising sections of feed for
their stock. Fodder remains, but
the corn itself, necessary to fatten
the steers for market, will have to
be shipped into sections of country
naturally grain exporters, at an eX-
pense that will preclude the idea of
satisfactory profit by cattle raisers
at anything near the present prices.
For ten days a steady rush of cat
tie to the big stock markets of the
middle West has been in progress.
The raisers can't afford to hold and
feed the cattle. In many instances
COWS are being sent to market in
such numbers that the generation
of calves due next spring will be
much less than the average.
Cattle receipts in the Western
markets first rose above the normal
when the hot weather killed the
pasturage. Carload after carload of
steers went to Chicago and Kansas
City. The general movement to the
slaughter houses is still in progress.
In the first three days of the present
week 10000 cattle were received
at the Wetern markets, nearly as
many as in the entire week a year
ago.
The same condition to a certain
extent holds true in the hog market,
and receipts have been nearly doub-
led since the drought.
Live stock prices are naturally
slumping while the markets are load
ed with stock. But in spite of the
fact that steers and hogs are cost
ing the packers less than at any time
for several months no reduction in
the wholesale price of meats is an
nounced, and the housewife has OBJ
tained no benefits because of the
present abnormal conditions in the
markets.
" The drought, according to stock
men, will result in immense profits
for the packers because of their
ability to buy now when the cattle
raisers are at a disadvantage and to
set new prices this winter when
there is scarcity in the cattle re-
ceipts.'
AS a matter of fact, whether peo-
pie desire to do so or not, they will
soon see the wisdom of eliminating
meat from their regular bill of fare.
1t is far from being a necessity, and
there are authorities aplenty who de-
clare that meat eaters are not so
strong physically, mentally or moral
ly as are those who use no meat
whatever.
For years the Seventh Day Adven-
lists have used nuts in various WAYS
in the place of meat. In Battle
Creek, Michigan, the home of health
foods, they have long used nut foods
in their college, their sanitarium and
their various institutions. The writ
er has eaten baked protose at their
restaurants, and it is in every way
as palatable as nicely cooked meat,
and you are surprised when told
that it is entirely composed of nuts.
Then there is peanut butter. To
many people that compound, which
had its origin, also, we believe, in
that same Battle Creek, is quite as
as meat.
Our Wayne county cooks are a
wise lot, and they know how to meet
the hunger needs with a great varie-
ty of dishes that not only appeal to
the appetite but do for human bod
les what good food is expected to do.
There was a time when Wayne
county farmers would have laughed
at any suggestion of a fresh meat
She had cattle on thous-