Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-28
DAIRY COMMISSIONER wRleH
WILL VISIT NEW YORK IN ;
sHIPPERs' INTERESTS. 9
BUTTER AND POULTRY RATES
ARE TO BE ADVANCED
Iowa Vital'y Interested in Preventing
Raise in Tariffs on Products From
Chicago to Now York-lowa Teach
ers Attending Summer schools--other
State News.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. June 2S.-- H. r. Wright
state food and dairy commissioner. will
leave for New York In few days to
seek to pervent the railroads from ra<k
ing the rate on less than car load ship
ments of butter. eggs and dressed poul-
try from Chicago to New York While
not appearing so on its face the matter
Is one of very vast Importance to the
small creameries and shippers OF eggs
and poultry in Iowa and all the west
ern states and the increase in the rate
is directly in response to efforts of the
big creameries and shippers for more
of a difference between the carload
and less than carload shipment so that
the big concern would have more of an
advantage.
The rate from Chicago to the Allan
tic seaboard for this class of freight in
refrigerator cars has been the same on
less than carload shipments that 1t was
on carload shipments, the rate being 65
cents d hundred pounds. From points
west of the Mississippi river to Chi
cago the rate was cents higher on
less than carload shipments than on
carload shipments. The big concerns
to New York lowered on both classes.
which would simply have made the
difference in the rate greater proper
tionately. Instead the western classi-
fication board recommended a higher
rate on less than carload shipments
leaving the rate the same on carload
shipments.
The inside Of the business Is this:
Big creameries ship their butter in
these refrigerator cars as soon as they
have enough butter to make two tiers
In the car which amounts to 21,600
which Is Just above the minimum
weight for which they must pay. AS to
the less than carload shipments OF the
small creamerdes this Is gathered UP
along the routes TIL car Is filled and
the car is taken to Chicago. these re-
frigerator cars for less than carload
shipments, being run once a week. At
Chicago the railroad company sorts
the butter over. putting all for New
York In one car and all for Boston In
another and so on and loads three tiers
of butter to the car or 32.4O0 pounds.
thus hauling as much OF the less than
carload shipments in two cars as Is
hauled in three cars OF the carload
shipment for the. rest of the distance
from Chicago to the seaboard
1t is maintained by me small cream
cries of the state that under these cir
cumstances the railroads have no lust
grounds on which to raise the less than
carload rate from Chicago to New
York since they are under greater ex-
pense to haul the carload shipments
than the less than carload shipments.
Commissioner Wright will go to New
York to appear before the railroad
representatives in an effort to get con-
sideration for the small shipper. The
hearing will be had on July /.
This is one OF the many lines of ef-
in the interests Of the small creamery
and the small shipper. AS set forth
many times by Commissioner Wright
the small creamery that manufactures
100000 pounds of butter a year can
do 1t more economically and make bet
ter butter than can the big concern
that ships Its cream In from distance
for the reason that with the small con-
cern the butter is made before the
cream has time to spoil while with the
large concern the cream shipped by
rail In express cars Is often times heat
ed and partly spoiled before the but
ter is made, thus lowering the grade.
Circulars have been sent out from
the office of the food and dairy COM
missioner to creameries in the state
calling attention to the law that went
into effect April ~ prohibiting a cream
cry from paying higher price for
cream In one section than 1t does In
another with a view to running out the
small concern. Big creameries in the
past have done this paying a higher
price In the locality Of a small cream :
cry than the small concern could afford
10 pay till 1t was run out of business
and then dropping the price again Five
hundred small concerns have been
driven out Of Iowa in the last seven
years in just that way.
The new law imposes 1t upon the
county attorneys to enforce the law
but Commissioners Wright expects to
cooperate in every wav possible Az
riculturists hold that dairying will ultl-
mately prove to be the salvation OF
Iowa In the conservation OF tho fertil-
ity OF the soil and the dairy business
depending on making the best but
ter. the small. creamerfes must at all
hazards be preserved and protected
against the truA concerns.
]. G. Woodhouse, a Des Moines
newspaper man who reported the last
session OF the legislature. has written
a story which will appear in the August
number Of Black Cat 1he story is en-
titled THE Keeper Of the 18th Door
1t Is based on the situation at the last
session Of the legislature when an
economical wave struck the assembly
and It vas plsnned to get along sltl,
less doorkeeDsrs.
School msn Of Iowa arc greatly
pleased that the number Of school
teachers attending the summer schools
in this state are 30 greatly Increased.
4 few years ago there were no summer