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milk; help raise- the price of the high grade beef steers by not having 

 to pay the 50 per cent tax the tallow cow dairyman is putting on him. 



Can we blame the meat man for helping the oleomargarine manu- 

 facturers to put their fraud butter in the retail dealers hands to make 100 

 per cent profit on, so long as we put the old cow beef up against them? 



The lower left hand figure on the chart shows the difference in the 

 price& of meat from a beef animal from 4 to 20 cents per pound whole- 

 sale. The small cuts above show why these back cuts are more valua- 

 ble. The one to the left from a steer dressing 60 per cent, has 4.2 inciaes 

 lean meat and .8 bone, 1 tallow. A pound of this cut at 23 cents would 

 make the lean meat cost 30 cents per pound. So a steer dressing 40 per 

 cent has 2 inches lean meat, 1 inch bone, 1 inch tallow. A pound of this 

 cut at 15 cents would make the edable lean meat cost 30 cents per pound. 



Then the lean meat from an old dairy cow showing twice this amount 

 }f fat at 12 cents per pound, costs 30 cents per pound for edable portion. 

 Thus the 60 per cent carcas beef animal would be worth 6 cents gross, 

 :he 40 per cent one 3 cents gross, and 1% cents for the dairy cow. That is 

 ill she is worth today and all sne will bring on the market in a year or 

 ^wo more. The breeders of high class beef and dairy cattle have not push 

 3d them as they should. The dairymen have not used them as they 

 mould, but the laws of production will bend us at its will. If we feed a 

 ?oose Indian corn it will grow some feathers and store up fat, but wiD 

 ?row better feathers and moic- of them if fed on grass and corn. Feed a 

 iairy cow what you will, her arteries will carry most of it towards her 

 adder. She will change into milk what protein she can wita enough 

 carbohydrates and fat to make a ratio with the protein of about 1*4, and 

 the balance will be stored as fat or wasted. Fed to a beef steer it would 

 De made into lean meat to his ratio of lean to fat. Fed to the scrub cow 

 Her arteries are enlarged more to feed her neck, limbs, 1 idy than her 

 ldder, so she feeds her self and wastes most of the balance and gives but 

 Little returns to her owner. 



The Red woman of 400 years ago fed her household a balanced 

 ration, Indian corn and lean meat and wild game. She taught us how t'> 



