The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-17
MEAT DEALERS THEY MAKE ABOUT
 TWELVE FER CENT
Average Cost Wholesale Is About 20 Gents a Pound and They Sell at an Av-
 craze of 30 Gents


 is what they make on selling various kinds of meat at retail, say local dealers.
 Twenty cents pound is the gen eral average paid by the retailer to the wholesaler for meat supplies of all kinds here this week.
 Thirty cents pound is the average price realized on retail sales.
 In the bulk of meat supplies pur- chased by the retailer from the whole saler the wastage, bone, gristle and scrap, averages about one-fourth of the raw material bought.
 Irrespective of the bone transferred to the retail customer the bone and gristle wastage the retailer suffers nearly approximates fourth of the supplies received.
 Other than the flat comparison of the wholesale price the retailer pays and the amount taken in from his householder customers. the marketmAn invites attention to his overhead ex- penses, transportation, lights help, rent, licenses, credit losses and spoil age.
 One retailer yesterday quoted the following prices paid, in cash, by him for goods received this week, as fol- lows:
 WHOLESALE PRICES
 To Armour & Co.,; Hind quarters, 22 cents pound; round steak. 20 cents pound; plates, cents a pound spare ribs, frozen, HE cents pound sau- sage, Is to 20 cents pound; hams, 2S to 80 cents pound; white meat. 15 cents pound; breakfast bacon A cents pound; pork loins P to 2S cents pound; pure lard, 14h cents pound
 Bought from Birmingham Packing company: Hind quarters. 20 cents a pound; round steak, IS cents pound; plates, 10 cents pound; spare ribs, IT cents pound; sausage, 15 to 20 cents pound; hams, 26 to 29 cents a pound; white meat, 1S15 cents pound; break fast bacon S3 cents pound; pork loins, 2S cents a pound; pure lard. IA cents a pound
  to be fair sample of wholesale quota tions this week, on cash basis, a num- Der of local retailers gave their quota tions to their customers as follows.
 RETAIL PRICES
 Peerless Market. 1909 Fourth avenue, north, c, R. McEntire, manager Pound quotations: Porterhouse steak. 35 to 40 cents; round steak, 30 cents; loin steak. 35 cents; veal chops 35 cents; pork n t1 1rra xf-. .r. "A. l. 0 pork sausage, 25 cents; mixed sausage, Is cents; sliced bacon 30 to S5' cents; sliced ham, 40 and 50 cents mutton chops 90 and 35 cen ts. lamb, 25 and 30 Sents; fish, fh 10 30 cents: beef roast, I 5S co 90 cents; stew beef, 12h cents pork roast. 20 and 25scents; salt meat ebest aualityl, IT cents.
 City Hall Market, 1Sv6 Fourth avenue. north; R. F. Cowart, manager: Round steak, 30 cents; loin steak, 35 cents; porterhouse steak, 40 and 45 cents veal steak, 35 cents; pork chops 30 cents; beef roast, 20 cents; sliced ham, 40 and DO cents; veal steak and chops, 25 to 40 cents; veal roast, 20 to 25 cents; link sausage, 20 cents, and ground sausage. 25 cents.
 Holzer's Market. 1924 Fourth avenue. north; Sig Lecvy, manager: Porterhouse steak 45 cents; loin steak. 35 cents; round steak, 30 cents; pork chops, 32 cents; sliced ham. 35 to 60 cents; veal chops. p cents; beef roast, % cents; rib roast, 22 cents; pork roast. 5 to 30 cents; mutton chops. 30 and 35 cents; pure pork sausage. 25 cents.
 The White Star Market, 1927 Fourth avenue, north; H. K. Benners mana ger; Porterhouse steak. 35. 40 and 45 cents; round steak. S5 and 40 cents; loin steak. 40 and 45 cents; mutton, 20 to 40 cents; veal chops, IS to 40 cents; pork chops. 30 and 35 cents; sliced ham, 90 to so cents: fish. 121a to 35 cents: hens, S5 and 40 cents; flyers, 50 to SO cents; sliced bacon, 30 and s5 cents white salt meat TIE cents a pound.
 OTHER DEALERS
 McEntire Bros, 1894 Fourth avenue north; c. E. McEntire, manager: Pork loin steak, B cents: porterhouse steak, ssc stew meat, 10 and 1211 cents; beef roast, l7 to 25 cents depending on the cut; mutton 121s to 9 cents;. veal 121k to 25 cents; fish, 15 to 30 cents; mackerel 2 and So cents; pork sausage. 9 cents; mixed sausage. IS cents: hog liver, 10 cents beef liver, 20 cents; sliced ham 4o and 50 cents; salt meat (best quality. + cents; lamb. g and 90 cents; hens. sb to & cents; mutton, 121s to B cents: pork roast, 20 and 25 cents
 Alabama Market and Produce company, 21o7 Second avenue. north; J. T. Hack ney, manager, gives out the following prices: Round steak. 30 and 5 cents; sir | loin and porterhouse steaks, 30 and 8 cents; white salt meat. best grade 2O cents. second grade white salt meat b cents; roast beef. 10 to 25 cents: rib roast, 2 cents; pork chops 90 cents pork ham steaks, 40 cents; pork shoulder steaks, 2s cents; breakfast bacon, 30 cents hams 1 50 cents. The above prices are all per pound.
 Rich's Market. 21o1 Second avenue; H. H. Rich. owner and general manager, gives out the following quotations in pound lots: Round steak, 30 cents: sir loin and porterhouse steaks. S5 cents; forequarter. steaks. 25 cents; pot roast beef 20 cents rib roast. g cents; salt white meat, 20 cents; pork chops. 30 cents: pork steak, 25 cents; ham and breakfast bacon, 8 cents
 The Birmingham Market, 2f15 Second avenue, north; W. B. Wallace, manager, submits the following prices in pound let's: Round steaks. 25 to 40 cents: sir loin and porterhouse steaks, g to 70 cents; pork chops. 25 and 30 cents: beef roasts, 1b and 20 cents: breakfast bacon | B cents; ham, % cents; white salt meat. IT cents.
 Jacobs Market, 1923 Fourth avenue, north; Charles Jacobs. manager. submit lots: Round steak. 90 and 70 cents; sir 1cin and porterhouse steaks, B to 50 cents; pork chops. 25 to 35 cents; beef roast. lo to D centsy white salt meat, 20 cents; breakfast bacon. 30 and 36 cents; pork ham steaks. 40 cents. -