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EFFECT ON MEAT TRADE. LITTLE DEMAND FOR BEEF. (United Pre«» Annotation—By CableCopyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Pre.. AMoeiation.) Chicago, Feb. 27. Mr. Everitt Brown, president of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange, estimated that there has been a sl.ttnkage of 1375 million dollars in the value of live stock in the United States in the last-six months. t)iet propaganda was destroying the meat business. Prices for beef cattle had dropped about tour dollars per lOOlbs. He stated that the demand for beef had been so curtailed that consumption in some sections was twenty-five per cent, under normal. Some experts assert that the markets are clogged with beef which cannot be sold. Mr. Brown also pointed out that there was a great change of public diet in progress, in which meat was cut to a point 45 per cent, less than ten years ago.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 3
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