Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
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ho says thoI peeL Is gong lnIo tho
luxury class it behooves the lover of
roast-rib or sirloin to give heed to
the subject. Chatting with a Tele-
graph representative the other day
the Lieutenant Governor said that
he had drawn this matter of the
failing supply of beef to the atten-
ton of the Committee of Publid
Safety in Pennsylvania.
THE beef situation promises I'd
be serious one" said Governor Me-
Claim, "and it may come to pass tha
porterhouse steak and roast will find
classification in the price list with
canvas back duck and terrapin.
Beef cattle the other day made
new high record in the Chicago mar
ket. Several cars sold at S14.65 and
great number of cattle brought 1
cents and upward. The top price IN
the New York market that day wa:
S1475. Two months ago l suggested
15-cent cattle during the summe
months, and this prediction wa
ridiculed. l again essay the role o
prophet and foretell that If th
price of corn continues at 81
bushel and upward, 15 cents pc
pound will not begin to cover tn
price of corn-fed beef within tn
next six months.
The average consumer, no ooup
fails to understand that with cor
at SO "a bushel and hay at SIS pc
ton, and cottonseed meal or bran a
from $50 to see per ton, corh-Ie
beef will cost at least 16 cents pc
pound to produce, and 1t Will, ike
wise, cost 16 cents per pound 10 PIo
| duce pork" continued Mr.. McClal
'and no better evidence of that rae
can be found than that pork is sell
ing at more than II cents per pouno
s.rl.k Il
"A good quality feeding steer
Weighing 1000 pounds, will likel
cost the farmer this fall from 8 cent
to- 10 cents per pound. AS basi
of calculation, let us say 91a cent
per pound, which will mean $9t
When, in the course of seven 0
eight months feed, he puts into tn
animal 45 bushels of corn at 81 pc
bushel, l n tons of hay, at SIS pc
ton (and hay will be worth SIS pc
tom, and one-third Of ton of bra
or cottonseed meal, at $54 per to
(cottoaseed is $54 per ton now), h
has invested the first cost of tn
steer, $50, plus 500 worth of corr
$27 worth of hay and SIS worth q
cottonseed meal, grand total o
$225. The average maximum weigh
produced from such quantity
| feed, plus shredded fodder, etc.,
| 4UU llldhlll6 lllS oNSSAB "AS
| fed out and ready for the marke
| 400 pounds, and these 1400 pound
| of steer have cost the farmer $22
| or a cost per pound of divide $22
| by 400 pounds) 16 cents. This IN
cludes no cost of the labor involve
| in caring for the animal, to offst
which, however, the farmer has tn
manure. Heretofore, when farI
labor was one-third to one-half
| l.. = !. nj nfll n
was to balance the hay, the cor
fodder and the labor against tn
value of the manure, but present
| day conditions make necessary a rt
vision of the old methods of estima
ing. Even assessing no value for tn
| hay consumed by the animal, tn
cost price of making the beef Woul
be cents per pound higher tina
the highest price paid in Easter
Pennsylvania during the months
January, February, March, Aprl
May and June for our best winter
fed steers"
"The prospect of having to gd
certainly a 81 per hundred weigl
advance, and perhaps a IS per hur
dred weight advance, doesn't furnis
q strong stimulus to farmers to fee
cattle this winter when the top-notc
pdlu lOI lllS bGol NeNLNAC
Eastern Pennsylvania this sprin
when the crop was marketed, wa
twelve cents per pound, and only
few punches at that. Most of OF
good 1900 to 1900 pound prime VIII
ter-fed cattle sold at IL cents to IL
cents per pound, and everyboo
! thought these prices were extreme
high. We can't have the cake an
eat it, too. If we want cheap beef
| q 60 ha h iurIad
than it was in Eastern PennSylVan
during the first six months of 191
corn must come down, and who
lot down from its present price.
it doesn't, the result, after the gra
season is done, surely Will be price
prohibitive to all but the rich an
the highest earning wage-workers
This country at the present tim
is experiencing demand for fres
beef that it has never known b
| fore. Labor is proftably employe
and when labor in this country ha
the price 1t eats meat. We are
| tablishing cantonments for the me
that are sent somewhere in France
| and we have already a large numb
somewhere in France that we ha7
to feed and feed regularly, to fit the
to fight. In addition, we must n
forget that we are practically flu
nishing the world meat foods. I'll
supplies going to Europe from I'll
| Argentine Republic are very sma
because of lack of ships plying b
tween South American ports and tf
! continent"
zone of the plans of the food col
servers is to have everybody WI
possibly can adopt a calf" in ord
to increase the beef supply. No dou
| many beef calves are being veale
! that should be matured, but, on 4
other hand, the ordinary dairy calv
are not worth saving for beef-ma
| ing purposes. The plan, howeve
has merit, and If some of the womd
! faddists of the present day wou
/ dispense with their >bull pups al
Pomeranians and adopt a bull ca
and feed him molasses cake, tn
would have the advantage of a mo
exciting recreation and at the sar
time, they would be helping to less
the beef shortage"
Few people know that the me
imnortant livestock market betwe
pittsburgh and Philadelphia is La
| caster and that dealers watch t
Lancaster market carefully. L
Lancaster quotations are know
wherever cattle are sold.
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