Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — Consumption of Meat. [ARTICLE]

Consumption of Meat.

Out of a steer weighing 1,090 pounds there is obtained only 180 • pounds of really choice meat, two ribs and two loins, which are sold to fancy butchers and hotel men for eighteen to twenty cents a pound, while the rest of the animal is worth only from three to eleven cents. An average sized hotpl of the first class takes §1,400 worth of beef a month. By the time the bone is taken out every pound of beef that goes on the table in a swell hostel rie costs fifty cents a pound, which goes far toward explaining the logic of the rates charged by such establishments.