The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-15
No MonE CnENp WEAR

zctto thUt cheap meat BE- e. thing Of
mo past and none need expect IL Co.
return Co tho markets
Promises ur prophcsi,s. of cheap
a. meats are in the opinion ~ the
Breeders Gazette. obviously design
ed 10 plaDatc consumers Whose buying
capacity b. now taxed to the limit
and the fact may as we'll be- under
stood that meats will never again be
cheap iu the sense In which they were
during the period of surplus produc-
ton
The cost ~ mcat-makiuE-th the
breeders lost haze enhanced along
with the cost Of everything Included
iu the comprehensive term cost of
living II costs more for a steer 60
be boarded nowadays than IL formerly
did The expense Of conversion ana
distribution be- also upon q lofty
basis and there ls scunt prospect OF.
reduction.
In the opinion ~ the Breeders Ca
zette promises OF cheaper meat are
not only wrong because they mislcad
the consumer. but also because. IN
Sc far as they are taken seriously.
they discourage the production OF
beef. pork and mutton. increasing
the constant menace of increasing
scarcity
The price Of the choice cut In the
butchers shop and the price on the
hoof are pretty wide apart. but that
must always hc true. OF course. the
cost Of distribution might be omc
what reduced The cost Of conver-
sion doubtless Includes q somewhat
unreasonable profit To- the ronvcrters.
Here Is a problem OF considerable In
tercst But land Is worth twice as
much as il was ten years aEo-thc
government statistics say this-feed
is worth much more than Il formerly
was. farm labor costs one-third
more in 1874 than IL did IN 1905 Al
OF his means prosperity Nobody
wants To- see land values shrink or
farm products that are used In part
as feed fall 1rf In price or labor sus-
tain a cut in wages And regardless
OF what auyoue might want, these
factors In the production u meat on
the hoof will not be secured at a les
sened cost.
Tarin revisionists-or some of tnom
hoped for more radical changes IN
the cost of dinner table maintenance
than can be effected by free admis-
sion OF commoditcs. ON h other
hand standpattcrs,' who predicted
Hooded markets and the paupcrizaton
OF home labor us "A result of ans
"tinkcrius" the Democrats might du
with tho sacred schedules, are now
shouting that steak ana mushrooms
cost as much today as thoy did dur
ing the Republican supremacy. The
market, they omit To add has not
been Hooded There has been no
paupcrizaUon of farmers
II the demonstration 81 the inabil-
lty Of tarin doctors 60 pun down the
price uf meat aWakous the home pro-
Queer 10 the opportunities that an,
his We may have q larger production
of cattle. sheep and hugs The cost
of the dinner table will not perhaps
be- directly affected. or greatly az
fccted. but The benefit To egrlcuitur,
would be- considerable. a sourcc oI
profit now too much neglected wuul,
be- developed. aud there would be af
Increase Of wclfar, In the countr,
which would be- reflected lu cities.
The price 81 meat and the fac
THAI foreign shipments VIII not cuI
the price and destroy the profts %
breeders. make q plain that rang'
l%cattle. which ouce were produced -
large numbers upon free or YER
cheap western lands, must be replaces
by animals produced IN wider terri
tory and IN smaller groups. Tiilag.
that BIS not strictly scientific depiote
soil and causes az someone has said
the streams 10 run red with an
blood III butchered acres Cattl,
sheep and hogs add Co soil fertility
o. viii nc better for agriculture whe
there are no more great cattle raisin
ranches iu the west and when ther
are man, more small breeding cntei
prises scattered from Ncw Englan
e to the Pacific coast
'e That there will not bee, IA q r.
'e suit. a return 10 low prices FOR mel
. seems altogether probable. no MATTE
y how discouraging it may be- 10 tho'
~ who are consumers and cannot be- 10
tercsted as much In the profits 4
20 production az In the cost Of the cot
10 verified and distributed commodity.