Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — ADVANCE IN BEEF. [ARTICLE]

ADVANCE IN BEEF.

The New York World. April 10, stated that beef was as high in that market as it had been in twenty years. A few retail - Porterhouse steakr®9 ?ents per pound; sirloin, 25c; sirloin roast, 26@28c; round steak, 18c. The retail dealers claimed that the rise was due to a combination among packers. The wholesalers absolutely denied this. H. D. Armour, eastern representative of Armour & Co., Chicago, in an interview, mid: “The public does not know what it is talking about. The advance is simply due to a shortage in the supply of marketable cattle throughout the country, consequent upon an almost complete failure of the corn crop last year throughout the great corn belt of the country, and short crops for a year or two preceding that. It is a fact which few Eastern people understand that good prime beef can anly be made from corn. The still fed animal puts on as much flesh as the cornled, and to the ignorant eye gives promise of making as edible meat, but there doesn’t begin to be the quality to it that corn-fed beef possesses.” The latest, quotations on the New York market for prime native steers is $6.20 to 16.35 per 100 pounds, live weight. A year Mio prime native steers were selling at H. 40 to $4.55.