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Packers' Profits Are Large
A dispatch to the Chicago Record-
Herald, under dato of Kansas Citv.,
March. 12, says:
"Cuthbert Powell, commercial editor
of the Journal, and for moro than a
quarter of a century in closo touch
with the packing house and live stock
interest of the west, has prepared an
articlo, based on accuralo figures to
show that Commissioner Gariield was
in error when he reported that pack
ers make a profit of only 99 cents a
head.
"Mr. Powell's investigation shows
that the average net profit to the
packers, instead of 2 per cent on the
price of the cattie, is $7.41 a head, or
15 per cent on the price of cattle,
and that this profit is turned over
every two to four weeks twelve to
twenty-four times a year.
"'Of course says Mr. Powell, 'all
cattle do not kill out alike, some gross
ing more than others. They net all
the way from fifty-two to sixty-two
pounds to the hundred pounds in clear
meat, tho latter being the percentage
for choice export steers.
"'The following figures aro based
upon the year's killing of a big west
ern packing plant, representing all
grades coming to it in that time, and
are eminently fair, including as many
or more cheap and medium cattle as
better ones:
Value of the Offal
"Slaughter offal of cattle and its
market value:
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Bulls, av., cured SO 9.00) 7.20
Yield of Fats
"This gives an average of $7.32 per
head. The following shows the yield
of fats from a week's killing of 6,000
native steers averaging 1,205 pounds;
crude fats, 86 pounds; finished prod
uct, 69 pounds:
pound, worth about 9 1-3 cents a pound,
or 7 cents per head for tho horns.
Other Returns
Tho other offal is represented as
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Oleo oil, Nos. 1 and 2 19 8.625 1.63
Tallow 11.4.625 .50
HTotal value per head, $5.56.
"This yield includes all -the trim
ming fats and those from the tongue,
neck, tripe, etc.
"The horns average two pounds In
weight; No. 1 horns are worth $275
per ton; No. 2, $185; No. 3, $100. The
average Js $186.66. The average pair
of horns weighs three-quarters of a
Weight,
pounds,
Blood 91
Switches .".., 1
Neatfoot oil 1
Hoofs
Skulls .... .. 71
Jaws 1
Knuckles , . 2
Shins 2V
Glue 3.1
Bladder Each
Heart Each
Liver Each
Cheek meat 4.4
Weasand ...- ':.. 6.3
Ox lips 7
Tongue meat 1
Sweetbreads ,31
Tripe 1
Tails 2
Brains 77
Tongues 5.1
Casings
Averago value of hides........
Average value of fats
Ayerago value of offal
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3,125
10.800
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30,000
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2.000
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6.500
2.500
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40.000
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$ 7.32
, 5.56
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Total $15.14
"It is plain from these figures why
the little houses can not prosper. Tho
small offal and the fats yield the big
houses a profit of $7.82 per head, which
is mostly lost by the little killer. And
when the value of the cured hide is
added, the largo packing companies
receive a gross income from the side
products of $15,14. Native steers on
the hoof, average 1,205 pounds, and
dressing 58 per cent In killing, make
700 pounds of clear meat, were sell
ing on this market $4.75 per hundred
weight, which would make their cost
at the yard on tho hoof $57.23. .Taking
from this the value of tho offal, shown
above to be $15.14, and tho cost of
the net carcass to the packer is $42.09.
"Now for this carcass, the same date,
packers were receiving an average of
7 cents per pound. This would give
.for the 700 pounds of meat $52.50 for
the average. Killing, tho cost of which
approximately is 50 cents per head,
leaVes $52 net for the carcass. De
ducting from this $42.09, the cost of
the live animal, after allowing $15.14,
the value of the offal, and there re
mains a gross profit to the packer of
$9.91 per head.
"But there "are the general expense
of the plant and extraordinary disburse
ments to be accounted for, and $1.50
per head on cattle will be allowed for
this, which is a very liberal estimate.
Still there remains $7.41 per head net
profit to the packers.
"Applying the average profit of $7.41
on cattle, 20 cents on hogs, 50 cents on
sheep and 50 cents on calves, to tho
total number of head killed in a year
by the combine packing houses, gives
a total profit of $47,727,412. Figuring
upon the total capitalization, undoubt
edly heavily watered, of $110,500,000,
(we have 43 per cent."
NOT SO YOUNG HIMSELF
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, though
he will be 84 years of age next July,
is still wonderfully rugged and active.
Some time ago he was ambling along
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington,
when he saw an old lady trying to
cross the street in face of a gale of
wind. The senator gallantly escorted
her to the sidewalk, whereupon she
thanked him and said: "I hope, sir,
tbnf. when vou are as old as I am you
willed tho3e who are. willing to as
sist you when In trouble." "Tnank
you, madam," said the -senator. "I
hope so, too. But how old aro you,
may I ask?" "S'ixty-four, sir," was the
tremulous reply.- "Ah! I am 83," said
the senator, as he lifted his hat and
ambled along. Kansas City Journal.
Impressive, though simple services,
participated in by the legislature, su
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federacy bivouacs and state uuard and
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of representatives at Nashville, Tenn.,
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