Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-04-13
MEAT CONSUMPTION LIGHT
Biggest Decline in Pork and Beef.
While Exports are 81 Percent
Below 1919.

Beef growers made their supreme
effort in 1918, and during tha
year sent to market Is,75o,4oo animal:
which yielded slightly over seven ant
one-half billion pounds of dressed
beet. This number has never been
approached before or since. In two
years the cattle slaughterings have
fallen to 12,I76,4oo, with an accom-
panying decline OF one and one-half
billion pounds in beef production.
The exports of beef prorducts fell
from 728ooo,ooo pounds in 1913 to I64,-
100000 pounds in 1920. This was
,, 10 be expected, as the United States
for several years before the World
War was not beef exporting coun-
try. South America and Australia
are now the great sources of cheap
beef and mutton and naturally will
dominate the export trade in these
commodities
Ten years ago the consumption of
beef per head of the population in
the United States is shown to have
been 78 pounds; last year it was not
quite 56N pounds.
Beet consumption in the Ameri-
can household has undergone a great
change durig this time, especially in
reducing waste and doubtless a con-
siderable part of the difference be-
tween these amounts formally found
its way into the garbage can.
New Zealand Lamb Factor
The table showing sheep and lamb
slaughter is marked by considerable
irregularity, The slaughter was
greatest from 1911 to 1914, after which
il declined for three years, then In
creased for two years, and n 1Q2o
again declined.
Exports and imports Of mutko1 xnt
lamb have been almost negligibj& uotiI
last year, when New Zealand frozen
lamb carcasses were imported in large |
quantities, making an epoch in the |
trade. The weight imported during
he year was IoI ,ooo,oo pounds, nearly
one-fifth of the total dones,Ac pro-
luction of bob lamb and mutton. 1t
IS not to be assumed, however, that |
his is the beginning of permanent
rade of such magnitude. The impor-
ations, in a sense, were merely an
Incident due to the war.
The New Zealand product, as well
Is that from other sources, normally
$ absorbed by the English market,
,ut the unusual conditions following
he war caused the British last year
o be overstocked, and the meat found
II outlet in this country. This guam
ity of lamb, it may be remarked, is of
omewhat less signihcancec on the ;
ther side than it is here, since ac-
ording to figures previously publish
d the average Briton consumes rela-
vely about seven times as much lamb
nd mutton as the average American, t
,hile the average for France is nearly +
our times as much. /
Consumption of lamb and mutton in
he United States is only about +
ounds per person per annum and IS a
ery small compared to beef and pork. S
is smaller even than veal, of which +
bout pounds per person is con- I
umed I
Pork Exports Slump i
Pork production in 1920 fell consid- b
rabIy below the high record made /
1910, when marliotings were un c
sually largceowing to the high prices t
REVEALING during part OF that year, t
Icluding the highest ever paid for S
We hogs. Nevertheless. the consump p
on Of pork was slightly greater in D
40 because of the heavy decrease IL