The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1918-01-09
Initial Step to Packing
Plant Seen in Nina
ture Plans Being Car
ried Out by People.
Il PORKERS SOLD
HERE FOR s4S1.S5
St. Louis Prices Are
Paid--2OO Head Are
Bought Here During
Last Month.
(From Saturdays Daily.)

From Saturdays Daily.)
Serving the same purpose as would
packing plant in this city and pro.
yiding ready market for livestock
grown in this territory, D. Peltz &
Sons, operators of two local meat
markets are buying hogs and beef
cattle in large lots, paying spot cash
st. Louis market prices, curing the
meat, packing it and distributing 1t
locally among dealers.
There is some talk about the es
tablishment of a cooperative ship
7.psng system for county farmers. This
move has been discussed locally 70,
some time. 1t was brought up this
morning before J. Peltz, in an inter
view and he pointed out his version
OF the movement:
cooperative shipments of live
stock and especially hogs, is fins
plan when they can not be marketes
locally. The idea is to get the bes'
price possible. This price could nev.
er be secured heretofore. Buyers 0.
hogs would not pay it, because they
knew the farmer would not snip his
hogs. But when they can be sold in
the county seat, the place they are
usually shipped from, at st. Louis
prices, less freight and shrinksge, a
small amount, it is hardly feasible to
market them elsewhere"
Aiding Home Consumption.
Mr.. Peltz did not bring out another
feature of the home-marketing plan:
The feature of supplying the home
trade with their own stock. Event
ually the hog grown on a farm near
Greenwood gets back to its original
owner. But it returns smoked ham,
neatly bound and tied, after passing
through the hands Of number OF
mlddle-men. Likewise the price is
boosted, that all may get their share
Added help has lately been INSTALL
ed into the Peltz markets, where the
hogs are salted and cured and packed
They are then marketed through local
grocerymen and through markets
Likewise lard is made and sold. 1t is
soon to be put up in neat tin pals and
put on sale in this attractive manner
bringing out another advertisement
for the city in its commercial prog
ress.
Is Hogs Bring $4Sl.S5.
Mr.. J. Peltz stated that more thar
two hundred head of hogs has been
purchased from Lefiore planters dur
ing the past thirty days. In speaking
Of the prices paid to the ralsers Of
the hogs, he told of the sale of tifteer
porkers sold by the City Farm re-
Gently for the sum of $48l.85.
Around fourteen cents Was paid fol
this lot. The prices vary in accord
ance with St. Louis market quota
tons for the date of the sale, less thu
small shrinkage (the weight hogs los'
in transit) and freight.
How 1t Works Out.
Thirty-two hogs were sent into th'
city recently by Mrs. L. W. McCart!
from her place near the city. Mrs
AicCarty had Planned to ship tnen
co-operativeiy, but upon finding ou
tnat they could be marketed local.!
at an advantage, she sold them here
The hogs we're really sold befor'
they were delivered--two days earle
in fact The market was up at tn
time. When the hogs were delivered
two days later, the market was down
In this case the raiser profited; ha
they been shipped to st. Louis or else
wnere, the transfer would have take
at least two days and they would hay
entered the market and at its 10y
tide.
As we'll as paying higher prices TO
hogs raised here, beef cattle
also bought This will continue q
year it is understood and arrange
ments are now being made to provid
for the handling of the meat throug
the summer.
While to some this story may az
pear as an advertisement of tf
feltz markets. On the other han
tne article was prompted after an II
terview with Secretary +. Herr, OF II
Chamber of Commerce, who relate
the wonderful advantages of this ma
ket to a reporter this morning AZ
suggested that the story be secure
II is purely demonstrativs Of what
being done by county farmers al
what can be done by them and ~ ti