AMERICA'S MEAT SHORTAGE.
' .VIEWS OF THE PACKERS. (Received Sept 15, 8.50 a.m.) • NE.W YORK, Sept. 13. , .Speakers at-, the annual convention of the Institute of American Meat Packers, held at' Atlantic City, pointed out that, the bag packers of the United States were facing a serious meat shortage, due to the growing disinclination of farmers to . ra j se .cattle. ; owing to the high cost. The institute hopes to devise means of remedying the shortage.— A. arid viN.2. ,c.A-"v-v, .;, .^y _••- ;..--,-- _.-,--. ; ;';.-■■ OPTION ON" BIG kxXJKYAROS, CHICAGO, Aug. 19.— The Big Five paokers have- given an- option for the sale of all their stockyard interests, officials of Armour aaid Company 'announced to-day. . They decline 'to say who had taken the ontion, ':. The yards affected include virtually every principal stock marketing : centre m. the ooiintry. Several farmers' Organisations have been . interested" m a plan to buy the stock of the packers, m the yards. The option is -understood to expire. December Al.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15319, 15 September 1920, Page 3
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159AMERICA'S MEAT SHORTAGE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15319, 15 September 1920, Page 3
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