The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-12-23

OMAHA Chicago notably E. S. Sweet al tranload
shipped ST. Paul with wide margin of profit the pric
offered Portland Seattle Tacoma and other coast points
The livestock journals maintained by those packing concerns
have undertaken reute the well established charges of
fair dealing made against them by the hog rasers and the
local papers of the communities effected by msquot
ing figures mssang facts and using falacous reasoning
tended to mislead the unwary.
The Weiser Signal has quite active in the owrk of cup
tripping" the wabby arguments and statements of those
tersted stock journals and setting the public right In the
In its last issue edtoray unhorses couple of the
enemy in the following manner:
Remember when you used to sell hogs at cents per
pound? Thirty cents right good prce for corn in
those days, wasn't iti Now, actually things far
out of plumb the kind of who the equalization
conference would have 1T appearY-SOuX City Live
Stock Record
And we also wonder if it is remembered here in the
Northwest when hogs from 2 IL to cents per
pound?-Portand Live Stock Reporter.
Oh yes remember these enthusiastic supporters of
the meat trust have not told all of the story They have adj
mtted that when hogs cents pound 30 cents
bushe and the writer remembers that when hogs sold in the
middle west for IL to cents pound sold for Is and
20 bushe He also remembers that fancy bacon sold
at cents pound and standard at IL cents, but this part
of the story friends do not to dwell
Now let's look at the other side The Portland Live Stock
Reporter of Monday December 49, quoted at $35 per
fancy bacon at % to 30 cents pound and showed the
price Of hogs for last week to have been cents Suppose in
order reach fair conclusion and arrive at proper basis
for the price of hogs do little comparing Perhaps it
would be better submit to the Reporter and Stock Record
simple problems proportion Let them sharpen their
pencils and these:
bacon could be sold for profit when hogs
cents and 30 CENTS how much profit there in
3Ocent bacon when hogs cents and dollar?
Again. how much better off is the producer who feeds
dollar and sells his hogs cents than the producer who
fed his hogs 30cen and 9cent bacon justified price of
cents to the producer what should he receive when
dollar and bacon 30 cents If the Signals mathematical
conclusions correct and the writer's education has not
been the must be that II the OF feed
gone up 300 per cent, from 80 dollar bushe
and the price of bacon has gone up 300 per from
pound to % and 80 cents pound then CORE
of no
of hogs and they ought be bringing exactly IL per
pound the Portland market Instead of that the top price
quoted cents, gain of only SO per cent he good
old times while the packers received advance of 300
cent ON the finished product.
But this is ALL AS matter of fact the producers
receiving That is the top price quoted at Port
deliver his hogs Portland to get the CENTS and that is
the top of the market he is likely get IL cents
Again. the price Of bacon quoted this article is the Port
land price, and the consumer must pay that price plus the
freight back Weser and plus the retailers profit Then
will be seen that the packers receive the hogs at cents
while the farmer the freight and the packers sell their
bacon at 30 cents and the Weer and vicinity
pay the return freight
In the good old tmes' local butchers who
bought killed and marketed their product with half the
knowledge by the packer of how to utilize every
of the hog, and with facilities for making money
the standard of value for dressed meat twice the price
live weight If four cents paid for the butcher
if he averaged cents for the dressed The
packers however, content with nothing than three
or four times much.
In the face of these we'll known ndsputable facts it
strikes the Signal that the stock yards and packing house
would better be content with drawing
benefacors without attempting to argue matter where it is
patent there is for argument Twenty head of
hogs sold farm Weser last week for exact
y cent pound would the good old time" have
returned for the producers but the grand arcensts
willing that the shall any the benefits of
them.
is estimated that the present program for the expansion
OF the navy If undertaken year ago. would have cost $
100000 less than the that will have be expended
1t just year ago that President Wilson, in his