Middletown transcript., 1906-07-07
LIVE STOCK GROWERS corvErTIoH

/, II the stoekmen of the country do no
solve their marketing and price problem
and'perhap, precede congress in compel
ing the packers to be decent in conduct 0
their business, itswill not be the fault o
the American Society of Equity, will
headquarters at this place.
This society, also known as the farm
ers trust, has called convention ofstock
men to meet at East st. Louis, H., Oct
% to 26, and there to organize branch
that will take change of marketing al
shipping stock cattle and hogs.
The object Of the society is to get prof.
table prices. The plan is to control the
supply aud direct the marketing SO just
enough is semitic market each day to equal
the demand.
}. A. Egeritt, president Of the society,
when asked how this will be accomplish
ed, said:
tOnr plan means organization and or
ganization is going toward very rapidly
in all the chief grain and stock producing
states. We will organize:the farmers and
stock raisers into, local unions, county
unions into state unions into state unions
and several states will operate under one
headquarters,
In operation: Each producer OF a
shipping surplus of stock will report his
supply to his local union or shipping sta
tion and the date when it will be ready.
All the local stations will report 20 the
county union Of their county, with the
railroads located on all OF the county
unions will report to the headquarters.
Now you see headquarters has daily
report of the supply and it knows exactly
where every head of it is and ON what
railroad. 1t will also know the daily
requirements of each market. There
fore it will be easy to direct the ship
ping SO each of the markets will
have its fair quota and not some too
much and some too little. II there is
asurplus of supply reported for any day
each person reporting on that day will be
cut his portion of the surplus, which he
must hold over till the next day, or until
the demand will take it without satiation.
''This plan is simple and entirely feasi-
BILE, said Mr.. Everitt. "The agricultural
industry is the most important one of
our country and if any one deserves a
system at its business end more than any
other it is agriculture. But in the past
there was no attempt at system in mark
keting, but blind guessing with the result
OF disappointments and loss to the produc-
ers, handlers and oftentimes the consum-
ers. If the railroads need stations every
few miles all over the country, with one
or more men in charge to conduct their
bu;iness, see no good reason why agri-
culture should not support an equally
elaborate system to bring certainty to
their business. If these same railroads
receive daily reports at headquarters from
each OF these thousands of all stations OF
freight received and delivered as they do
and if the railroad headquarters can direct
this freight in systematic manner as they
Dc, there is in reason why the farmers with
their heads and system cannot know
where their supply is and direct the dis
tributon OF it. They can.
"The stockmen's headquarters and
county and local unions will also repre-
sent every other farm product. Thus one
report daily will cover every crop and
The instructions will comprise all the
crops ready on that day. Thus the
expense will fall lightly on each industry.
But the farmers need not concern them
selves about the cost because after they
yet the price, which must have to be a
profitable price, they will add enough to
meet all the cost OF marketing.
Every other class of people and every
industry wrap the cost of marketing up
n the goods and the purchaser pays it. |
The farmers have been paying it always.
Now they are going to apply the same
principle to their own business and they |
will have erchance than any other |
,eople to enforce their demands because
he people cannot do without the farmers
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