Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — How Beef Prices Are Controlled [ARTICLE]

How Beef Prices Are Controlled

Hartford Courant. A well-known Hartford man was visiting a relative over on a Litch field county' farm, and, noting tin scarcity of cattle, offered to buy and present to his relative there sorm young steers, which, after they hat grown to be beef, could be killed anc realized upon. The resident farmei to whom the offer was made decLinet it. He said the local meat dealer was forbidden to buy domestic beef; if lu did so the Western people would start a house there themselves anc undersell him and close him out, the loss to them being trivial in theii extended business. Under these con ditions the’ steers would hardly b( marketable and the gift would be c burden. That was in Connection 4 where we are wondering what ails agriculture. One of the curios in the Philadel phia Zoo is the Belideus sciureus Ae is a native of Australia, and isalso called the squirrel-like phal anger. Most of the time this ani mal looks like a hanging bird’s nest It goes into one corner of its cage climbs up to the top, and grappling hold of the wires with its four feet together, hangs down like a huge pear. Its heavy breathing is the only sign that it is alive. There art two of them at the “Zoo." They bear a jaint resemblance to a flying squirrel when not tucked up in thi corner. Their faces are like the faces of a monkey, and ' are fuhny enough to raise a laugh every timi they are shown.