Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1912-01-18
COMMISSION MEN CHIEF SUFFER-.
ERs FROM INCREASED
CAPACITY.
SHIPPER SUFFERS NOlOSS
Estimates That st. Louis Market
Alone Brings Farmers About
Two Hundred Million
Dollars a Year.

otm 10 the lArse tlhe carr nOs uaed
On nj roads has led 10 a discussion OF
NE small pay commission men 70
scive for handling the most valuable
and perisaAble OF tarn products Ia
Ssstigaiion brings to notice the fact
hat produce commission men receive
rom ave to ten PEI cent for handling
arm products. while I've stock com.
mission men receive lees than one
Der cent
Twenty years asa. when the live
uock commission rates that have pre-.
sailed up TO very recently. were ca.
abllshed, cars we're - to 20 Zee, long
and commissions we're SO much per
Sar Nov carr are % 20 g. feet long
aud under the old rate live stock mcu
ccci'ed from 30 10 % per cent iess
'or their services than thcy did two
seOados sgu. wken live stock was lcas
valuable and no, 80 hard to sell Al a
good price The new rates are not
IA high BY or 10 per rent AZ thcy
sore when cars wore small
sslesmen Hslo-Rsspe asibls.
The live stock commission men
eoln, out also that conditions have
charged. that nov the most expert
nrn the packers eau set are cra.
eioycd ~ buyers many Of them for.
nefly live stock statesmen attracted
% tho b1ying aide through hlgner
pay; that these buyers earn az they
tet-tkrosgh bringing saSn ihc pricc
81 live stork-a product that 10 worth
shoa, ihrvc billion dollars a year 10
he farmers. aud thus suffers q loSs
~ perhaps several hundred millions
u buyers can briHs down pricce even
few points zach day. aud that moth.
'ns pfovea,s them dolas 80 sHcrp, the
,bili,y 81 the sAlesmen into whose
hands the shippers coHrmi, their con
sigumenIa holding the statesmen re.
spousihlr bot only for settiaR as Eood
q price as possible. aud rvmitting tho
sash promptly. bui ziSo guaranteeing
iila 20 n. buyers and making good
Il mortsascd or stolen stock ie soid.
tIkestse that the ctsst ~ living and
to,HE businrsa has Increased That to-
FAY the settlers et live stock mast
have a. expert 10 haadle hogz. an
ahcT for sheep. another for native
attic. anosheT FOR quarantine cattle
Ind ssiIl another tCr butcher Cattle.
oge,her wt,h a large stan to handle
End sost all arrivals promp,ly Ia tho
beat market condilioa
Farmer 10 aersn,su.
THAT The farmers receive the ID.
vantage Of higher prices foe food.
aaas and better salesmanshlp--that
the commission men pay Tits Ad-
sanerd cnst without gFusnSliaE. but
sonsideF themselves entitled 10 re-
adjustment Which wiil brsag their pay
~ to nrarly chat Il VAS formerly
Several moaths ago tha g. Louis
tive stock Exchange acat Oh, notice
that the Fsadiusimcnt would 20 irs*o /.
sract the frs, OF the year. and held |
another meeting later 10 consider pro /
lests from shippers, should any be /
made. oaly four shippers appeared !.
10 argue against the ruadlpssment. /
and when the new rate scns Into 81. /
tcct II seemed 10 have a stimaIatIve
fsihoT than a depressing effect on
business nj the 81, Louss market. tho
aoE receipts, Tor Instance during the
srss twu weeks Of Tho year showing
aESe gain nvrl other corn belt mar
acts During that period occurred the !
alggcst hos day In the history OF tho
National Stock Yards, over 2ieaa
ssad. h~ing received. thus Indicating
hat the 81 Louis hog market Ia itse-
y to eaioy even bigger year than
1911. whcn ha hos receipts increased
,ver million head. and it's total re-
seipsa reached s.3aa. 900 head of all
tninala This Increase came from "A
ilfegvnt states and Indicates how the
i've stock Industry In now cehtariug
i, ~ Louis. the railroads having put
N schedules BY which stock loaded In
he afternoon or evening anywhere
slthsn three hundred miles reaches
he National Stcck Yards in time for
he early market next morning
Packers have largely increased their
Il. I.og.s plants and the National
stock Yards Company has installed
'alf million dollars worth Of new IN.
lI,ties that enable II TO handle con-
iwnments quicker and better than
omp~sing points. one Of the reasons
his market 10 growing faster than
ny ether. Another reason Is the high
rade OF kalesmanship thai prevails
4 81 Louis, Is
S. Louis Leading Market
The st. Louis commission men
,olut out tina, they have earned easily .
hundred million dollars for the
srlaers the past twenty years by get.
Ing from to 50 cents per hundred.
rpiEht more for the stock sold at
4 Louis than II would have brought
sherwise. and the e.fifth of one Per
ent the readlustmeat adds TO their
'ay being nothing compared to n
usiness that asw brings farmers
bout two hundred million dollars .
ear from this one market l.,