The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-11
CALLS MEETING OF
!. LIVESTOCK men
IOWA ASSOCIATION TO HOLD SEES
SION AT DIES MONIES.
New Scale Made by Commission Mer-
chants May Result In Shippers Estab-
fishing Independent Agencies in
Stock Centers- Executive Committee
Will Prepare Plan for Annual Meet
ing Of Organization.
Special to The journal.

Special to The journal.
Webster City, Iowa, Dec. ia meeting OF
Meat Producers association will be held at
Des Moines on Wednesday to devise means OF
protecting the interests of the livestock men OF
the state in relation to the proposed advance
in fees by the commission houses at the ship
ping centers on Jan. i. The meeting will be
attended by hundreds Of members Of the assoc
citation from all over Iowa. The object ts to
effect temporary relief until the matter can be
taken up at the annual meeting of the asso-
citation, which will be held in February. 10
estimated that the proposed advance Will cost
the Iowa livestock men at least $4,000 year.
The program for the coming annual meeting,
and also ways and means OF securing ant1pass
laws, will also be discussed.
The proposed advance in the commission rates
for selling livestock has caused great stir
among the shippers thruout the country. 1t
as one of the series Of e
changes, and the shippers declare that this, IN
addition to the gradual tightening Of the wires
of the meat trust about them, Is more than
they stand.
Last year the commission merchants, by
agreement, abolished the travelling representa-
tiyes, eliminated free kilograms to shippers
concerning the trend Of the stock markets. Re-
Gently they notified the shippers that new
scale of rates would go into effect on Jan. l.
This new scale, In comparison with the old, Is
New Scale for Jan. /.
Hoss. old scale, 10 cents per head or SO per
Cattle, old scale 80 cents per head with a
maximum of s12 per carl new scale, not less
than SO or more than $12 per car.
| Sheep, old scale, 10 cents per head OF So
per car; new SCALE So per car, single deck.
| Calves, old scale. % cents per head or $12
| per car, single deck: new scale, % cents per
| head with minimum Of SO per car and maxi
| mum Of S12 per car, with double decks at $1e.
Mixed or butcher stock, old scale, up to $12
per car; new scale, SIS and up for single decks
| and SIS to $1s for double decks.
| It Is more than likely that the Iowa live
| stock shippers will join with the Texas Cattle
| Growers association and the American Stock
Growers association in establishing Independent
shipping houses to handle their stock. The ex-
pense Of starting commission houses at Chicago,
Kansas City, st. Joseph and Omaha, 1t Is be-
lieved will be comparatively small, and their
success would be assured by the members OF
| the three associations making all their ship
ments to them SIS #
The members Of the executive committee OF
| the Corn Belt Meat Producers association OF
Iowa, who will meet to decide the matter
| Wednesday are: President. A. L. Ames, Buck
| ingham; Secretary James J.. Ryan, Fort Dodge;
| r. A. Thornburg, Linden; Ward Wilson, Traer;
| j. B. Sheehan, Usage: J. r. Hughes, Mount
| Pleasant; Jerome Smith, Corning: Hamilton
Wilcox, Grswold; James Delaney, Marengoj
| James Thompson, Jeffersonj d.. Montgomery,
| Ireton; C. A. Bateman, Waterloo, and Andrew
| Eng1e, Metz. .4,
| The association will have represent tives al
Des Moines during the greater part - the ses.
| sion Of the state legislature this wr"". The
members are particularly interested i'll ;.le anti
pass and the state primary bills