Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — Meat Import Trivial. [ARTICLE]

Meat Import Trivial.

From a dispatch printed the othpr day, it would seem as though the corn crop of Argentine w'ould not be superabundant. This, if it proves true, will reniovq one of th.e apprehensions of the political econbmists, who feared the fate of the farmers since the bars were let down which held out the mass of food-stuffs ready to be dumped on American shores. Curiously enough, the information comes at a time when it supplements other news showing that the importation of Argentine beef has ceased to be, if it ever was, a menace to the packers of this country. These imports, it appears, are falling off decidedly. At the best, or worst, they averaged the product of about six thousand cattle a week, which is equivalent to 0 per cent, of the output of the five principal dressed beef concerns and only about 3 1-2 p-er cent, of that of the. country. Most of it, also, was frozen, and, therefore, went to cold storage, whence it was taken out for provisioning the navy. What was simply refrigerated,-or "chilled,” wumt into market, but did not compare with American meat in quality or sell as well. As an experiment, Argen-

tine meat imports had a value. As a eompetive proposition they have never been seriously considered.— .New York Times.