The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-10-16
MUNICIPAL ABATTOIRS
How Fresh Meats May Be
Made Cheaper
And the Poor Man Be Enabled to
Occasionally Indulge In Them.

Occasionally Indulge In Them.
The agricultural department of this
country is in deadly earnest in its ef-
forts to assist the farmers, and are
constantly seeking, by experiments
and otherwise, how best they can Inn
prove his condition and at the sam g
, time lessen, so far as the farmers pro.
ducts are concerned, the high cost OF
living to the general public. The lat
est development by the department in
this line is the advocacy of municipal
abattoirs by Assistant Secretary O
Agriculture Galloway, and the follow
ing from that gentleman cannot but
impress the earnest thinker on the
subject with its practica bility and the
benefits which would accrue therefrom
to all concerned. Already these city
controlled slaughter houses are being
established throughout the country.
and We have the fullest confidence that
If they are properly managed they will
prove all that rs hoped for them-take
the small cattle raiser out of t h {
clutches of the buyer who almost in
vartably ships his purchases to east
make it possible fot you. ,ne, and the
other fellow to once in time indulge
in a beetsteak.
After outlining th- Initial course o1
procedure necessary to lh- end sought
Mr.. G,tllow says ON the subject:
l. = The ",ta I'li>hu-nt of municipa
ahatlur~ throughout the country.
2 Thr raising nt stock by sinall
farlne,>.
\ ) Tho formation of co operative
live stock associations by the farmer,
of the east, south and middle west.
4. The formation OF boys pi
clubs, similar to the boys corn clubs
which the department has been sue
cessfully fostering for several years
Assistant Secretary Galloway say!
that the solution of the meat problem
lies to a great extent in the establish
ment Of municipal abattoirs.
'There is one thing, said MIR. Gal
loyay, 'upon which the solution O
the whole problem depends That i
the establishment of abattoirs by tn
smaller municipalities of the country
TO which the farmer can go and dis
pose of his live stock, have it slaugh
tered and have it held for favorabl
markets
Their esta blishlnent will give tn
farmer a competitive market in whicI
TO dispose of his cattle Now far
mer who raises cattle has to dispos
of them as rule to stock buyers wht
come through the country spasmodic
ally. These buyers. in turn. ship tn
cattle to Chicago. The result is tina
the farmer wants to make a profit, tn
buyer wants to make II profit abOv
the shipping expenses.
''This means that the farmer cannC
make much of profit, because dis
tance from him to the ultimate cor
sumner of the beef is too great. Th
esta blishment Of abattOirs, however
will furnish him with a ready marKe
where he can always make a cash salt
1.-The real issue is that the farme
viii produce the cattle as soon as b
finds it a profitable business. Once b
is convinced that cattle are more sals
BILE than crops, he will raise bot
crops and cattle, feed the former
the latter, and then sell the cattle.
"We are doing many things. Chi
among them is to increase the be-
production by small farmers. TT
time has passed when this country ca
depend on. the large ranches of the fl
west for its meat supply. In the f
ture we shall have to look to the sma
farmer-by whom I mean the farm'
with average sized farms.
"The supply of hog meat, shoue
not decreasing so rapidly as beef,
in danger, and the department believ'
1T has found way in which to i
crease the supply materially. That
: by the development of boys pig club
Several years ago We started boy
, corn clubs all over the country, ar
now have over 200, ,OoO boys raisir