Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1914 — MEAT SUPPLY QUESTION [ARTICLE]

MEAT SUPPLY QUESTION

The stockman has small leanings toward the sort of philanthropy that does business at a loss, with the doubtful .possibility that part of the people may 1 eat meat a bit more cheaply, and the entire certainty that a powerful and centralized packing industry will declare dividends *-e----gularly. - The packers have no one but themselves to blame for the shortened supplies of livestock. It is to be hoped that the great packing concerns will begin to build the livestock industry at the only point where their work can be of great constructive value —the establishment of stable and reasonably profitable markets. The packers should be able to see that their continued prosperity depends on a regular and adequate supply of livestock, and that the only way to secure such a supply 1b to make its production surely profitable. —The Prairie Farmer.