Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-08-23
CATTLEMEN SEEK
UNIFORM PRICE
FOR ALL CAKE
FIGURES HAVE BEEN As HIGII
As $40 PER Ton, N STATE
MENr.
MESSAGES SENT PEDEM
Bsycrs aud settlers VIII Also ASK
Assistance Of Federal Re-
serve Bank.


association Of Amarillo, at n GATED
meeting In the rooms of the board OF
c.,y development. at the cit hall
li.mched a Campaigi To reduce Inc
price of cotton seed oil cake and
cattlcmen and bankers were urged
tu askNthc food administration to|
establish uniform price.
A representative from each OF the
banks in the city was present ava
about seventy-fiyc cattle feeders oi
the surrounding country. Last year
| the food administration set the price
at S53. 90 per ton. which Is greater
than the feeder can pay this year
aud the association asks that the
/ price be set at $40 per ton this year
Little oil Cake Used.
Very little oil cake has been
bought as yet. but the price has been
boosted to az high as $50 per ton.
/ +. o. b the mills. AZ this rate, II IL
pointed out. the feeders cannot buy
aud will he forced to sell their cattle
at any price the buyer wishes 10 fix.
II In charged that the oil cake mills
and the cattle buyer are cooperating
together In concerted effort 10
force the feeders TO sell at a sacri-
flee.
The association will ask the as
sistance OF the Federal Reserve
banks. the cattle loan banks and the
cattle loan companies In their effort
tn get the food Administration "a
take the matter over and TO estab.
llsh an uniform price Of &i5 per toh.
To Send Telegram.
Every feeder will be asked to send
d The following which Is u copy Of
telegram 10 the United States food
administration:
Amarillo. Tex. Aug q, 1918.
Q United States Food Administration,
. Cottonsood Products Division.
Washington, u e.
| will use about Two hundred tonl
Of cake coming season ! thought
food administration would nam'
price upon recommendation made b.
Texas oil mills of Si5 per ton ( %. b
cars mill basis o. per cent proteii
hundred pound sacks publicity givei
this caused me aud hundreds othe
feeders OF cake TO think we woul
he protected by food Administrative
now learn no price named and aboy
grade cake selling around $50 pc
ton ( % b mill This D. unreason
y. able other cattlemon. like myself
II cannot pay this price and continue Il
] A . B.
a price aud urge you 10 approve same
Shortage of feed grass aud heavy OK
pousc past two years caused b.
n lrouih will break cattlomen uulos
they get some relief
Bankcrs aud Cowmcn Wire.
The following is copy Of tel"
gram the association o. sending q
, bankers and cowmon. aud which wa
. approved Dos thp ASSOCIATION at thi
b., meeting
~ Amarillo. Tex Aur 20. 1918
Have every ,owmun and hanke
possible send individual telegram
I. .ood administration co'tonsocd prod
i. meta division. both Houston. Tex an
Washington - g.. Insisting on 81
.rDr ton price on. cars mill basI
. o. per cent protein hundred pouu
d, sIpks This is price approved an
!. recommended by Texas Cotton See
al rrushcrs' association and price mu'
- boz named before mills buy their s"cl
I, This is % lair and equitable value "a
\, cake Since August I price hae o.,
I, yln.od 81 prr ton and no t"Illn
how much higher q nill Fp uul"'
something done Immediately
II, % % NisTERSON Pres
I, Huvor. and SELLERS livestock Asg'
citation
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