Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-12
Roads Withdraw Feeding Rights.

OcS MOluoS.-1uS TdllTOduS nave
withdrawn the feeding in transit
privilege from sheep men who have
been buying sheep in the west and
shipping them to Iowa, feeding them
here and marketing them in the
east.
On this account, the live stock
shippers, organized as the Corn Belt
Meat Producers, will ask the state
commission to cut the local Iowa rate
on sheep. When the live stock sub
ject was before the state commission
last winter, attention was paid only
to cattle. 1t was admitted that the
rates on swine were lower in Iowa
than in other states. And no atten-
ton was paid to sheep.
This lack Of interest in the sheep
rate was due to the fact that the
railroads did give the shippers, own
ers and feeders the feeding in tran
sit privilege. Under this privilege
the rate on the sheep from the place
of purchase to the Iowa point was
proportion Of the rate from the point
of purchase to the market, and SINH
larly the rate from the point of feed
ing In Iowa to the market was a pro-
portionate rate of the full shipment.
1t is said that close to 100000
sheep annually are fed in Iowa and
shipped on to market. Withdrawal of
the feeding in transit rate pushes the
rate on these sheep to point at which
the feeding business will be stopped.
The state commission has nothing
to do with the feeding in transit privi-
lege. 1t is a portion of the interstate
shipment and the railroads may or
may not grant it, to their own pleas
ure. However when the state COM
mission lowered the rates on cattle
about 20 per cent last spring, the board
urged the roads to maintain and ex-
tend the feeding in transit privilege
to all live stock shippers and feeders
in this state.
1t is not improbable that If the rail-.
roads had given the live stock men
the feeding in transit privilege for
cattle no effort would have been made
by the Corn Belt Meat Producers to
secure lower rates on cattle either
state or interstate. After securing
the reduction of the Iowa rate about
20 per cent the shippers went to
Washington to file petition for lower
interstate rates and it is now pend.
ing before the interstate commerce
commission.
The live stock men will now ask the
state commission to reduce the state
rates on sheep to a proportion of the
interstate rate which the state rate
on cattle bears to the interstate rate on
cattle.
Money to Fight Disease.
''It is the intention of the board
Of control to expend the $4,000 ap.
propriated by the last legislature in
a campaign Of education relative to
tuberculosis" said John Cownie of
the board. cit is not the intention
Of the board to expend the money in
any manner not contemplated by the
statute.
Some one suggested a while ago
that the board should turn the money
over to the society or somebody to
be expended. That doesn't appeal to
me as businesslike way to dispose
of an appropriation made by the
legislature. We shall not go about
1t that way
ut is the boards intention to put
the superintendent of the sanitarium
near Iowa City at work going through
the state informing the people as to
the disease and the preventative cam
paign undertaken by the state at the
sanitarium, but this cannot be done
until the superintendent is selected.
Unfortunately the law requires a doc
tor to be chosen for the place. We
are having difficulty in securing the
right man for the superintendent,
but hope to solve that problem SOON"
The board has rule to select
only professional men for places as
superintendent, and coupled with
the provisions of the law sometimes
requiring professional men to be Sc
lected, there is additional difficulty
in selecting superintendents.
The board has not yet found a
superintendent for the Knoxville in
stitution.
The Rev. A. e. Kepford has been
travelling the state as lecturer for
the society of which Governor Lar.
rabee is president informing the peo-
pie Of the evils of the white plague.
When the superintendent of the state
institution get in the field there will
NC Two lecturers engaged IN the work
Of educating the populace on this
subject.
2-cent Fare Case Postponed.
To allow the Minneapolis & st.
Louis and the Iowa Central further
time to determine the actual effect
of the new two-cent fare law. Judge
Mcpherson granted Attorneys Judge
Carr and H. v. Poor of New York
until November 4 in which to renew
their fight on the new Iowa statute.
The attorneys in their appeal to
Judge Mcpherson for additional time
averred that the next stop will be
the filing of an amended and supple.
mental petition.
Suicide Mania.
The suicide mania is abroad in
Des Moines. One policeman has dis
covered two cases in the last twenty
four hours and another policeman has
helped to save the lives of exactly
thirty men and women who tried to