New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-29
MEAT A BIT CHEAPER,
BUT LESS IS EATEN
Most Retailers Selling a Cent
Under Last Year-2,6OO
Texan Steers Coming.
ANYWAY, CHEER UP!
Butchers Are Sure Cattle Will
Soon Be Out of Fashion, and
Farmers Grain Makes
Good Breakfast Food.

Cheer up.
Meat is coming down.
| Twenty-siX hundred head Of Texan cat
tie are about TO stampede the New York
market
| Alexander Mccarthy, manager of tine
/ greensboro Bridge Market. said ycster-
! day that the cattle were in Chicago now,
and he and others were selling beef a
cent lower on the strength of the news.
! So firmly fixed is the feeling that meat
| prices are constantly and steadily going
| up-up-up--that it is really hard 10 be-
| lievc that they arc lower than they were
this time last year OF everything hut
veal, that is. Veal is higher than il has
| ever been since war time. But retailers
selling porterhouse steak for 80 cents a
| pound yesterday got 80 cents August q,
1872 and there is the same difference In
most cuts of beef and lamb
one butcher In Second avenue. who has
a good deal of West Side trade. was SELL
ing round steak and srloin al q cents
| Yesterdays a year ago. But compar-
| sons between this year and last are diff
| cult. At the same moment yesterday the
Second avenue man was getting q cents
/ for sirloin the greensboro Bridge Mar
| ket was selling it for IS.
Prices in other shops ran the gamut
between IS and Is. and I'm some gilt
edged Broadway places were higher. \
| sirloin steak isn't the same thing in every
shop
The wise housewife would rather pay "A
bit more and get good meat-but she also
knows that the butcher pays his rent out
OF his profit and by taking a little jour
ney 10 some unpretentous shop in the
poorer districts she may save something
in her meat bill.
Meat is a bit cheaper than it was last
year. but people aren't eating any more.
This nation, meat men say. is consuming
less and less meat every year. because
they say, il is becoming a nation Of
breakfast food eaters
Il can remember" said Mr.. Mccarthy.
the time when the breakfast delivery OF
meat was bigger than the whole days
delivery is now That was some years
ago. and meat was cheaper. People ate
chops and ham and eggs for breakfast
then: now they cat cereals. They had
meat three times day, now they have 1t
once, and a good many not more than
two or three times week.
Grain amt fed to cattle now. It's
easier for the farmers to ship it to some
factory. where it's made into Mothers
Barley or U'ncles Breakfast Wheat or
Father-in- Laws Blown-up Corn Kernels.
Cattle are going out of fashion. People
take their grain straight now, and not in
the shape of beef and lamb
H. the opinion OF one West Side re-
taller meat will always be eaten. And
Il isn't straight as those Chicago butch
ers said the other day. that meat VIII be
beyond the purses Of most people ten
years from now. ] believe meat will be
cheaper in comparison with other edioles
ten years from now than II IL to-day.
with all the household courses In
schools women ought TO know more about
the possibilities in cheap cuts than they
DO now Beef heart, which is cheap, is
nourishing when rightly prepared. Chuck
steak is more muscle making than more
expensive cuts. and put through meat
grinder makes the best OF meat cakes.
Jaw. but" said his assistant, IF every
body took TO Wantln cnuck tnc price uu
go up an porterhouse 'ud go down, so
what's the use?'
In contrast 10 the opinion of the local
dealer quoted is that of The American
Meat Trade and Retail Butchers Jour
nal" which in recent issue says that
there is a "WoTld shortage OF cattle.
and that the decrease Is likely 70 contin-
ne Drouths in the Western States
drouths in Australia, drouths and the
foot and mouth disease I'm Argentina
SAYS this paper, have seriously crlppieo
the chief sources Of the meat supply.
As to Argentina beef, however late
dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that
the first cargo OF chilled beef for the
United States was SHIPPED on the steamer
Vandyke. There are one thousand quar-
ters I'm the cargo. which Will reach here
September r. More will be sent II this Is
we'll received.
Several local butchers said yesterday
that the arrival Of the Argentina beef
would cause drop in prices.
our customers won't eat 1t, said one
high class retailer. but plenty persons
will. and it eases the market