The daily Panhandle. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1915-02-11
PRICES 10 ADVANCE STEADILY
HIGHER, EXPERTS SAY.
EXCEPT PORK.
BLAME ECONOMIC LAW
Consumer May Gnnsh His Teeth IN
Vain and Panhandle Cattlemen
May Smile.
by LYNN NJ. LAMM.

Washington, ID. c.. Feb. li.-You
may say goodbye" TO the ~ cent
round steaks. the 20 cent porter
house. and the 10 cent rib roast The
good old days OF cheap beef are neV-
er TO come again In the United Sta
ties. Instead p1ces today are lower
than they ever will be again.
Tho consumer may gnash his teeth.
The cattle grower In the Texas Pan
handle may smile his broadeSt. The
foregoing is the situation.
For the first time the government
will recognize officially this sprinS
the American beef shortage as a per
manont institution No longer will
the government seek to find 4 goat"
to blame for the high price of beef.
no trust. no Incidence or short
sightedness on the part Of American
farmers Is to be blamed in tho fu-
ture
VIII Hold shortage Inevitable.
Instead the government will give
as its official opinion that the pres
ent high meat prices are due to the
Inevitable working out OF immutable
economic laws. laws which working
In the past have brought about the
present prices and which. continu-
ing to work In the future. will cause
even higher prices
There IL no remedy, no escape No
'amount of Sherman Law prosocuiions
and education of farmers can avert
tho fate In store for us There Ia
no escaping the fact that the poor
of this country must prepare to say
good by 10 beef except az an on
pcnsiyc luxury
Such but in more technical Ian
guaFc. will be the report Of the de
par,mcnt OF agriculture's meat sur
vey nov nearing H. conclusion A
year ago Secretary Houston appoint.
cd commission OF eminent farm
economists 10 survey the agriculture
Of the United States. explain tbs
shortage of cattle. and suggest rem
edies
Membership of Oummissison.
Tho commission consists Of Dr
Beverly y. Galloway. formerly az
sistant secretary of agriculture, nov
dean ol me Cornell Agricultural col
lege. chairman Dr r. NJ Carver
advisor 90 the departments rural or
ranI1atIou service Prot C. = Cur
tis of ,mcg .a. director of tho lowe
state experiment station n. J. Wa
tors. president OF the Kansas Agri
cultural college. Manhattan. kas
and Prof Numford head of the dc
partment of animal huabandry OF thu
Illinois College OF Agriculture
While not a aord OF the commiss
ions report has vet 1eou written. Z
les possible 90 forecast what "a wil
lo on the data which has been 70
Coiycd at the department From
study of the material ou hand no 9th
or conclusion can bc reached thW
that tho beef shortage is pcrmann'
and certain 90 become Wurfa
Pork Prices to STAY Same
a remarkable phase of the rves
uFaton shows that tho sam laws
causing the rise in beef prics Opor
ate 20 keep pork at reasonable
price. and no great advances in th'
, price OF pork are e,pertd U Il
pointed ont by department experts
however. that with corn at is pres
, ent price. hogs are noF icing sold OF
4 tho Chicago market az esa than Sha
- II costs 10 produce tlem
Higher corn price mean higher
( pork prices eventually but this meal
l for years TO come 3 expected to fol
, low IN price the luctuation in tn
I price oi corn
g The comm ssin la iis survey p
b discovered that man and cattle ~
rot compatibloon ire same soil. A.
human populrion increases In Zen.
afty rafffs .f.--a4ss-- -asH4he= Tbs
e breaking up 1f the great cattle ran
= ges into ~ Is one factor but
e more impraat reason s the con
Q tlnual NJ nblFe in ncruage ~ 80
J. average American faru 0nco'e'
tant Of ia -easiug POP an1u