Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
M. 4 or. L. -1ERvEo NOTICE THAT
STOCK WILL De REcElvEp
ONLY ON TWO DAYA
9HiPPERs CAV pAckERs
ARE DAck OF THE MOVE
Trying to Fores The Shippers 70 Accept
q Two Days Market, Dseiars the
Fsrmsrs, With Result. That oiut VIII
Enable Packers 70 Hammer the
Prices.

will be received for Chicago. via c. d
N. w. at Marshalltown, on two days
only each week, farmers in the stock
producing territory north Of this city
are up in arms. and declare the rule
J can not help but work q hardship upon
them.
Just what has caused the sudden
change in the long-established custom
Of the road, no one pretends to say.
Neither do agents of the company give
any reasons, protesting not to know
anything but that such are the orders
from headquarters
Scent Packers Deal.
| That the big packers who buy at the
Chicago market are back OF the move
is the firm belief Of the farmers. They
reason that by inaugurating two DAYS
market at Chicago, when offerings VIII
fairly slut the market, the packers Will
he enabled to hammer the market at
| their will, and the big receipts will
naturally cause a lower price for the
farmers product
Old Rule in Force Many Years.
For twenty or thirty years on the
4 old Iowa Central. at least as far BACK
as Colonel Martins time as general
manager Of that property, shippers alons
the line who have no outlet excepting
this road, have been accustomed TO De-
I ing provided with cars and a guarantee
that their stock will go thru without
delay on any day Of the week From
the north, where many cattle and hogs
are shipped, farmers have been &C
customed to getting their stun loaded
by o'clock in the morning ana get.
| ting a guarantee that their stock VIII
be in Chicago before the market closes
at noon the day following.
Now Guarantee 10 Different.
Now the guarantee to shippers Is far
different The railroad company guar
antees to accept and deliver stock 70
the Northwestern here on only TWO
idays each week-SundAys and TuesoaSs
making a Monday and Wednesoay
market only for farmerssin chicago
is an Old Game.
That the two days market agitation
is an old game Of the packers is de-
|clared by farmers shipping out OF here
front points north: The packers have
lbeen advocating two days market Tor
wears. say the farmers. and the COM
mission men have been fighting II.
The commission men know that they
can not care for the stuff as 1t should
he looked after when the receipts are
extremely heavy on two days a week.
and then light for the rest Of the week.
Furthermore the commission men, IN
order to keep their help to handle the
two days rush, are compelled TO per-
init the men to be practically idle ex-
cantinR on these two days when the
rush is on.
pr.vsnts Farmers Getting the "Filt."
Another dodge is worked in the two
davs' market, according to the farmers.
and that is to prevent the farmers from
getting any advantage Of the Till. Or
dinarily, when receipts are an average
run. cattle are cut up into small
punches upon receipt at the stock
yards and watered before they go on
the scales II there IL no rush tho
steers are.permitted to drink their I'LL.
thereby adding some Of the weight that
the shrinkage in shipping has taken
from them. This "fill' is to the ship
4 per's advantage.
4 On the other hand, If the receipts
are very large, as they would be II the
market for the great bulk of farmers
cattle were on two days only, many OF
the cattle would not be watered at all.
or if they were they would not be al
flowed to drink all they wanted, and the
result would be the farmer would lose
this additional weight. This Is due
to the lack. Of yardage facilities on the
part Of the commission men, who can
handle only about SO much in daily re-
ceipts. II the receipts go above a
normal amount the cattle are neglected
and the shippers lose the additional
weight Of the 'fill."
Say Can't Get Cars.
e. c. Coler. farmer and stock
raiser living near Union. was in the
city Wednesday with three carloads Of
fat steers, which he should have got
out OF here about noon. He was about
1 twenty -four hours late with his stuff
as it was, and did not get out until 9
O'Clock at night. He was told at Union.
90 he says, that the Northwestern
could not furnish cars. When he got
hero the Northwestern agent told him
that the NJ, & ST. L. had made no re-
quest for cars. Coler had sixty five head
of silage fed stuff. Because there were
not enough cars sent to Union, two loads
Of steers had to be left in the yards.
One Of these was a car Of cattle be-
longing to John Lundy, and the other
was q car Of hogs belonging to George
| Walton.