Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-14


Whole beef round lb .12a
Whole hind quarters lib. ..12
Fresh oysters at ......... 40
Fresh hearts ..12
Steer beef roast .12a-1O
Veal chops ........ 10
| Veal stew ........... 1910
| Sirloin steak ...... Id
| T-bone steak .15
Porterhouse steak .........15
| Little pig roast ...........15
Pork sausage, 2 lbs ........25
Prime rib roast .......... 12a
5 pound pail lard $3.50, ..S5
People in Webster City sometimes
wonder, when they visit Ft. Dodge,
Des Moines or Waterloo and see
meats on sale at certain markets at
low prices, and note advertisements
similar to the foregoing, why the
same thing cannot be in Webster
City. With this idea in mind, a re-
liable meat market was visited this
forenoon for the purpose of gaining
little information on the subject.
In the first place, beef and veal in
Webster City-at least at the mar
ket visited-is at the same price it
was last year, while pork and pork
products are from &c to &c pound
higher than year ago. Lamb is al
so little higher and poultry varies
but little.
Any meat market which is located
near a branch of any of the large
packing houses, said the dealer Wis
tied, has an opportunity to secure
meat at times at cut prices. For in
stance: In Des Moines carload of
meat will not keep indefinitely and
a branch shop of the packing houses,
receiving a carload and not having
been able to dispose of it all, will Of
fer the remainder to local markets
at extremely low prices. The GUS
toner gets the benefit of this. Then
there is reason why a sirloin steak
is advertised for one particular occa-
sion at 15c per pound when other
dealers are receiving csc per pound.
When you buy sirloin steak at 15c
per pound, the seller will toss the
cut upon the scales, bone, trimmings
and all and weigh it up at that price;
after taking it from the scales he
will trim it. When you buy sir
loin at the price of Csc you receive
the cut trimmed of bone and surplus
|suet and then weighed. Again a
dealer in one of these cities named
will receive shipment of frozen
meats which he is able to close out
at unusually low prices. Frozen meat
will not keep we'll unless kept frozen
and the freezing makes beef especial
ly tough, hence they are able to Of
fer it at low prices. Then still again,
says the dealer, perhaps the dealer
advertising cuts of meats at so at
tractive prices, is running cash
market with no delivery; he should
be able to make substantial reduc-
ton with this method of running his
business.
Be assured you are not going to
get something for nothing and when
lard is selling at wholesale at 16c,
there is reason for some dealer Of
fering lard at 12a per pound pals;
he may have mixed tallow with it,
or it may be lard rendered in a man
ner that you would hesitate to sane
ton if you knew the whole story.
1t is interesting to have a meat
dealer tell the fact that not one wom-
an in dozen knows what she is pay
ing for beefsteak, until she reads
some place that that particular cut of
meat is now 25c per pound; then she
calls up the butcher in great indig-
nation to know the cause of the high
price and finds that she has been
paying the price for over year, and
that it is the result of wholesale
prices and not combine of local
dealers. He who runs may read, i'll
he will but turn to the wholesale
prices of meats in the drovers' jour-
nal or any other reliable tradespaper
and will see that when beef at whole
sale is at certain price, retail
merchant cannot undersell with any
profit, without a cause for it.
The prices of meats today here are
about as follows:
Roasts-1S to 22c per pound;