—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 5,1970 18 Price Up Slightly, a Victim of Inflation, Not a Cause, Meyer Says_ Beef Costly? Compared With What? If live cattle prices had gone housewife spends 30 per cent, much as most other things you up as much as wages since 1952, while in Russia it is about 50 buy. American housewives would be per cent. 5- One hour of la oi i paying about $3.00 a pound for 4, Beef prices have gone up will buy seven m steak. for the same reasons prices ground beef; in 1951, u boiitJU “Some people want to blame have increased in every other slightly more than 4 pounds, beef prices lor the intkilun.ary industry in the counliy in- Meyer went on to explain trend that has hit every area ol flation and labor: but beef that cattlemen and farmers the Amci ican economy," says pi ices have not gone up as must make a profit or they can Amos R Meyer, Department of not slay in business. The pio- Markets, University ol M.iry- LoiitcllGStes' Pony C!ub chmlion of food and iiber is es- Ijnd, ™, ' , sential (o e\ery citizen. Caltlemcn in general Meyer dOCrS CXSCUdVO i>Ody j s fuiv to blame culUo goos on. icel it is lime to "Tell -v, . , , Pom men and farmeis for high it like .1 is” -to 101 l the con- Cl „b ”nd thch- nil"ents The cost ol packaging. burner that the piieo ot beef. ~ , ~, , .. l , processing and retailing bed 1,1.,, Miended (lie annual meeting and dm UI - LJ like the puce ol a new ca,, is . . , , , has skyrocketed because ol m thc by-pi oducl oi inlialion, not ‘,, 0 r J , l n , 1 ‘ i 1 flation and tliese costs repre lers on the John Gibson farm - 1 , Uil “ xu ‘ mese j ks cause. t,....,. . sent a major portion of retail When a cattleman hears nc ‘ l 1 11 ™° 1 ®; beef prices, someone say, “Beet prices sure Blocked to the cxecutne com- , iH i, f are hi and Mrs. John Wales, Ret- nm while the cost of operating a ton, Mi. and Mrs George C pledge then best elloits to pio cattle ranch or limn has more Young, ALglen; Mr and Mrs. Lanchester Pony Club mem than doubled during the same Frank Lane, Elkton, Md : Mr. b ers aie currently attending period. and Mrs. Donald Wallace. Down- training sessions to team how 2, Retail prices ot beef are h'gton; Mi. and Mrs, Glenn t 0 vvith handicapped child about the same as they were in Myer, Kirkwood: Mr, and Mrs. ren Middletown, Del., cen -1951 while the average take- Wilbur Rankin, New Providence, t er> under the direction of Miss home pay has increased about -H 1 - ilnc * ?^ ls . Francis Hill, Maudie Hunter-Warfel, founder 150 per cent. Beef prices on the Lincoln University; and Mr. and 0 < >j a tional Foundation tor average have not increased M’ s - Jere Bunting, Willow Happy Horsemanship lor the more than 15 per cent at their Street Handicapped, Inc highest peak in the last 19 Mrs, Hassler and Little are Plans are under way for the district commissioners for the annual one-day event to be held 3. The American housewife Lanchester Pony Club. Waters at Pony Club Headquarters on spends only lota per cent of her is president ot the executive October 31. 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