Question Number 78
My father told me a story of his life during the Depression and refered to a process of 26 families each contributing a cow to a buthering cooperative over the span of a year. He and his father (the 27 family)butchered a cow every two weks and delivered the meat according to a prescribed list of cuts. He refered to this as a "beef circle". Can anyone fill me in on the details of the process?
Several published local histories and memoirs make reference to similar sharing arrangements. They seem to have been fairly common in Alberta.
These informal arrangements did not leave any archival records about their individual members.
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