Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-22
.STOCKMEN ORGANIZE
STOCK FEEDERS AND. SHIPPERS
TO DEMAND IMPROVED RAIL.
WAY FACILITIES.
Meeting Held At Court House satur-
day Lloyd Burton President of
WapeIlo County Corn Belt Meat
Producers Association.

Wapello County Corn Belt Meat
Producers Association.
To help fight the alleged packing
trust. secure better terms from the
railroads and in other ways promote
the interests of the stock-raisers, about
forty OF the representative farmers and
stock-men of Wapello county met at
the court house Saturday afternoon
and perfected a local organization to
affiliate with the Corn Belt Meat Pro
ducers' Association Of Iowa. The
meeting was an enthusiastic one and
an effort will be made to induce all Of
the stock feeders and shippers of the
county to become members of the asso-
citation.
The local organization will be known
as the Corn Belt Meat Producers AS
ISOLATION of Wapello County, Iowa.
The following officers were elected:
President-Lloyd D. Burton, Ottum-
wa.
Vice president-R. S. Thomas, OF
tumwa.
secretary-Ellet Cohagen, Blakes-
burg.
Treasurer-E. E. Moore, Ottumwa.
The next meeting of the association
will be held at the court house Sat
urday afternoon, April 8, at 1870
O'Clock At that time the board of
directors, consisting of one representa-
tive from each township in the county
will be selected. Invitations explain
ing the aims and benefits of the associ-
alton will be sent to all of the stock
men of the county and it is expected
that many new members will be Sc
cured.
Interesting Meeting.
The meeting Saturday was called by
Lloyd D. Burton who attended the first
annual meeting of the state association
held at Des Moines a few weeks ago.
Mr.. Burton was chosen as temporary
chairman and Mr.. Conagen secretary.
Interesting talks on the production and
consumption of meats and railroad
transportation were made by l.. D. Bur
ton, r. S. Thomas, R. S. Dimmitt and
G. w. Dickens.
Aims of the Association.
The preamble to the constitution
and bylaws read as follows:
1--WE the stock feeders and stock
shippers of Iowa, in order to promote
the general welfare of the people in
Iowa, to restore to the shipper and
the consumer common law rights
which have been usurped, to secure
and establish liberty and freedom in
the markets of the world, do ordain
and establish this our constitution and
bylaws" n
The objects Of, the state association
as explained in the constitution and
bylaws are as follows: ITO organize
the meat producers of the states COM
prising the corn belt, into county as
sociations by uniting men who feed
not less than a carload of cattle, hogs
or sheep during the year, or who ship
to market in carload lots.
ITO demand the enactment Of state
and national laws that will compel
railroad companies to treat live stock
as perishable property and to run
stock trains at rate of speed equal
to twenty miles an hour, and to com
pei them to furnish transportation tc
| and from the market for an attendant
for such live stock.
ITO act as the agent of it's members
\ before the state Legislature to Offset
the influence of the lobby constantly
employed by the railroads and trust
I magnates.
Advocate Appropriation.
i ut is advocated by many of the
4 members that an appropriation BIZ
made to establish and maintain {
4 packing plant in connection with the
4 agricultural college, where the meth
!, DDS of managing packing plants, cur
| ing, canning and preparing for marke
shall be taught, so that men may al
ways be had who are competent tt
b take charge and manage packing in
/ situations in our own state.
"To furnish statistics of the number
of stock on feed in the corn belt dur
ing any month in the year. This in
: formation has never before been OBJ
tainable by the feeder from any source
t and will enable him to guard against
excessive supplies and over production
in the same way that the manufacturer
and mine owners do through their as
sociations.
Profitable for Members.
, IL is also lle aim OIL Iue dSSOCldLlOI
+ to make the business of meat produc
; tion profitable to its members, if, il
: order to do SO, it is found necessary tt
, assist in the establishment of packing
; plants, and for that reason we are ad
vocating the passage of laws, bott
|, state and national, that will not per
= = nit those gigantic institutions now en-
: gagged in that business to cripple sucl
plants by ruinous competition.
"The best meat sold in the world i
;, produced in the corn belt of this ma
9 ton. We have the same causes of ma
9 ture to contend with we have always
had. The cost of living and the pric,
of labor have increased, and though
the price of meat as a finished produc
is as high as ever, instead of a profit t
the man who produces the meat, man.
4 of them have been ruined financially.