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sale price of live hogs advanced under the new 

 law from $21.42 per two hundred and twenty 

 pounds in 1900 to $30.94 in 1905, or more 

 than fourteen cents per pound. Steers advanced 

 at a still heavier rate. In Berlin fresh pork 

 advanced to twenty -four cents per pound, 

 veal to thirty-five cents, mutton to twenty- 

 eight and one-half cents, beefsteaks and roasts 

 to thirty-five and one-half cents, putting meats 

 wholly outside the reach of the working peo- 

 ple. Many serious complications followed, not 

 the least of them being the injury to dealers, 

 over thirty meat shops in the city of Frank- 

 fort-on-the-Main alone having been closed or 

 announced as about to be closed through the 

 destruction of their trade by the scarcity and 

 high prices of meats. 



Russia in Europe in 1905 had only 24,000,- 

 000 head of cattle and 35,000,000 sheep for a 

 population of over 90,000,000, and no other 

 country in Europe had so large a number. 

 Great Britain and Ireland had only 11,000,000 

 head of cattle, 6,000,000 hogs and 34,000,000 

 sheep for a population of nearly 43,000,000. 

 In the United States, during the years when 

 there has been a constant decrease in Europe, 



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