Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-23
POOR MANS MEAT IS DOWN
After Years Of Advance Humble
Neckbone Comes Into Its Own
at Former Price.
FLOUR AND SUGAR UP AGAIN


n the poor man hath not rejoiced In
The last twelve months. he may rejoicc
TODAY for there is actually little reduc-
zion IN the price OF what is known as the
poor mans meat This is particularly
neck bones and to some extent spare
ribs.
Neck bones can actually be had for ~
cents a pound AZ present. This is the
cheapest meat on the market, 1t Is
cheaper than liver, which used to he
given away as fish bait when a lot OF
present day butchers were kids.
A year ago when meat OF all kinds
made phenomenal advances in price, IL
was impossible TO hold down even the
price OF neck bones Then Il was that
these began to climb in price, until they
reached cents a pound. They climbed
90 where many OF the poor. who had
depended upon them. could not even al
ford neck bones.
Back Into Their Own.
But thanks to something somewhere
behine the scenes. whether war. packers
combine manipulation. big run OF hogs
at the stock yards. OF any one Of the
many thousand causes TO which the high
cost Of living and fluctuation Of prices
is ascribed, the humble neck bones have
come back 60 their own.
At the same time spareribs have drop
ped hack 10 10 cents a pound. They, too
suffered an advance year ago when the
general advance in meat prices was rum
ming away with the widest imagination.
AZ that time they reached 10 cents a
pound. The reduction then is 1915 per
cent In tho price OF sparerihs.
or course, no ono need order a bonfire
celebration. Meats have not all come
down. This does not indicate surrender
Of those in control Of tho meat market.
IL means simply that the neck bone eater
can get neck bones now for 4 cents that
cost him 6 cents up to short time ago.
Further than that he must not inquire.
IT IL not for the people 20 know who
makes the prices. II IL for them TO pay
them
Advance In Pork Expected.
An advance in the price OF pork is
looked for by dealers. Last week wit
messed tho largest local killing and pack
ing OF hogs in the history Of the local
packing industry. Maybe that accounts
for surplus OF neck bones. Anyway.
there was u large killing and packing.
This week. on account OF the heavy
storm Saturday and the early part Of this
week the run of live stock Is not 80 large
IN the yards. The killing is correspond
ingiy less. and the supply will therefore
tend 20 20 down.
Hams and bacon are steady Lard is
up x OF cent a pound wholesale. but Is
still being sold at Hayden's for Is cents
q pound.
Round steak Is being sold at 15k cents
q pound as against IS cents a year ago.
Butter is Off cents on the Elgin mar
ket but this is not reflected in the
Omaha market. at least not as yet.
Sugar and Flour Up.
Sugar Is 10 cents higher Wholesale,
Flour has jumped another dime sack.
Flour costs tho consumer now. according
TO grade. from tf.65 a sack to sl.s5 sack.
Oranges have advanced Is cents a box.
The demand for them Is greater than II
was. Grapefruit is still cheap. The
sixty-four size can be had for cents
apiece. and the forty-six size for nickel
aIiecc.
Potatoes arc up 10 cents bushel whole.
yale. but the retail price il still main
talncd at 80 cents.