The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-12-04
The STOCK RAISERS
The Big LOSERS
Crane Neighbor Comments
On Present Live Stock
Conditions

Ten years age, the hills and val
leys OF Harney county were dotted
with herds OF grazing cattle. and
stookmen were well-to-do and were
happy To-day the stock raiser is
! practically bankrupt and only small
| punches OF cattle are found now and
/ then.
We think W, have found the cause
for this state of affairs in the oXperi-
onco OF j. 4. Vickers. who shipped n
carload OF cattle from Crane TO the
Portland market about ten days ago.
. and received his returns the first OF
the week, In this shipment OF stock
was COW. which weighed $50
! pounds whom sold on the market.
The COW brought Dir. Vickers St7GO
out OF which he paid the freight, aud
feeding charges at Pendleton. This
COW was old aud known on tho MAR
lei as "a "cannor" That is she be not
slaughtered and sold over che block.
hut the m9at o. used ln making uch
products aa corned becf canned roast
uoeL and dried boot just TO see whnt
Tho conagmor paid for The roat that
brought Mr vickers 2 couts q pound.
we made Inquiry az tho local stores
and found the following prices pre-
ynlont.
ono half pound net canned coru-
ed beef 30 cents I2-ol can OF roast
beef. 40 cents: 3IA -oz can OF dried
bosL 80 ceut so when YOU huy o.
haif.pound can of corned beer or
i2-os CON of roast beef you are pay
irg nt me rate az GO cent. pound
for meat thai coe, me packer ? crnts
per pound. Dried beof cost you az
the rate OF $l3j per pound. u IS
now pla.nly under TODD why the Iar-
ney county stock growes r. bankrupt,
whilc the big packers are million
aires.
During tho past year Swift q Go.
have spent thousands of dollars adj
veriisinR In TIE newspapers. showing
figures and statistics 10 prove that
the company makes less than one
half cent profit on each pound OF
meat they sell, A page ad. I'm
newspaper cannot convince us that
the packer. who bought and canned
Mr. Vickers' COW did not get more
than onc-half cent profit OF the diff
erence between . cents and si.3b
that YOU paid when you bought
the pound OF dried beef. To be sure,
the whole carcass OF the COW did not
make dried or corned beef. but 10
anyone familiar with the operation
OF "A modern packing plant Il Is
known that not "A single pound OF the
$50 that this COW weighed but what
was used In some manner by the
packer for every part of an animal
now is used. and there are hundreds
of products turned out by a'packing
plant besides the edible meat.
The hide is made into leather. the
hair Is used IN plaster. the horns and
hoofs are made into glue. the bones
are made into buttons and animal
charcoal; more than hundred medi-
cines are made from different glands
and parts OF the cow, as pepsin, pam
creatin, beef extract, glyeerine, vac
cine. etc. and as has been stated be-
fore not pound is wasted, for after
everything else has been worked
oyer-mto salable product the re-
mainder Is dried out and ground 10
a fine powder. dried again, sacked
and sold as blood meal, stock tonic
and animal fertilizer, at many times
the original cent price that was
paid for this COW.
The whole trouble is Mr.. Vickers
did not get his share of the value of
the animal. nor for the other 25 head
OF cows for which he received "a
cents "a pound on the Portland mar
ket And as long as this state of ar
fairs exists, the stockman who con-
tinues to raise beef will continue on
the edge OF bankruptcy or will have
To quit his old occupation OF stock
raising. Prices OF beef and beef pro-
duets are high enough, but the price
paid for beef animals Is too low in
Crane American.
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