Republican farmer., 1919-07-18

pants Tn the united States, Argen- tina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Australia
 The Big Five. the report shows. have control of or interest in public utility corporations in Sioux City, Kansas City. South St. Paul, Port land. Ore. South San Francisco South St. Joseph, Mo. Hill City, Min, Fort Worth, Tex, and Chicago
 As to financial power the report in part says: The packer has drawn to marked degree upon the banks of the country for liquid funds he could not operate on the scale he does without the very large loans furnished by the banks. To assure himself loans ample to his purpose. the big packer has secured afiliation through stock ownership. representa- ton on directorates. and in other ways, with numerous banks and trust companies. Mir. Armour. MT. Swift, Mir. Morris and MT. Wilson are direc- tors in banks affiliated closely with those who are strong at the sources of credit in the United States. Be- ing thus allied with the powerful in- terests at the sources of credit, the packers power is great not only for financing their own national and in ternaticnal operations. but for affect 4JlEs IOI EOOu OT TOT III. Itle CreulJ cattle producers and of competitors or customers in any line'
 IN LEATHER INDUSTRY.
 The packer invasion of the leather industry Is shown in the report to have reached the following point at the close of 1917: Armour, Swift, Morris and wilson-Cudahy not being engaged in tanning until the close of 1917-producad A per cent of the country's total output of sheep and lamb shoe stock; IT per cent. of sheep and lamb glove and other stock; II per cent. of shoe stock tan ned from calf, Kid and all skins other than sheep and lamb and goat and kid, and 23 per cent. of other leather tanned from such skins (except glove stoclk); 12 1-2 per cent. of shoe stool, from cattle sides; 9 per cent. of har- ness leather; 45 per cent. of strap leather; 21 per cent. of betting; 22 per cent. of sole leather, and IS per cent. finished splits.
 The proportion of stocks of hides held in the United States by the Big Five packers as against all other in terstate slaughterers, the report shows, ranged from 9O.7 per cent of a total of 96,sS9,S51 pounds on Jan uary 31, 1916 to Ss.6 per cent of 143,921,s5s pounds on July 31, 1917. at no time dropping below S7.1 per cent.
 IN FERTILIZER INDUSTRY.
 Armour & Co.,, Swift & Co. and Morris & Co.,, the report shows, pro- duced in the fiscal year of 1917, ap- proximately one fifth of the entire production in the United States of mt acid phosphate. Armour & Co. had 30 fertilizer plants in various parts of the country; Swift & Co., had II plants for the manufacture of mixed fertilizers and various Swift slaugh- tering houses are equipped with fer tilize- plants.
 IN COTTONSEED OIL INDUSTRY. The Big Five packers in the sea son of 1s16-1917 produced nearly one third of the nations entire re- l hned cotton oil output of 2O1,3S9.Ooo | gallons, or SIS per cent. Three | other interests. the Proctor & Gam b!e companies, the Southern Cotton | Oll Co. and the American Cotton Oil | CO, produced 42.6 per cent, and all other companies, 25.S per cent Of | crude cottonseed oil, the three of the | packers operating cotton oil mills. Swirt, Armour and Morris, produced only some per cent. of the total production, using however, large i quantities purchased from other con | cerns In their manufacture of oleo- | margarine. lard compound cookinr | oils, soaps, fertilizers and other pro- | ducts
 Production of lard compound and lard substitutes by interstate slsugh- | terers during the first half of 1917 l was ST per cent. in the hands of the ! Big Five packers, the report shows | Including all cottonseed oil mann | lecturers as well as interstate slau~b- | terers, the Big Five production eur- ing this period was 49.4 per cent
 average monthly holdings of lard l compound and lard substitutes bv inc | Big Five during 1916 was BIO Der cent. of holdings of all intersta a ] slaushterers. Of cottonseed oil soan stock for the season 1916-1917, the
 Big Five produced 3o.2 per cent of ] the total for the country.
 Oleomarserine production for the 1 entire United States from July. 1915
 to June 1916, was 41.7 per cent. con-
 trolled by Armour, Swift. Morris and
 Wilson interests; and TAI per cent
 by the "Oleo Legislative Pool" em-
 bracing beside those packers, John F
 Jelke Co.,. and W. J. Moxley, Inc.
 In grains. the Armour Grain Com pany. Chicago, of which J. Ogder Armour owns 64 per cent. of the stock ana other members of the Ar mour family 22. per cent, directly O, through its subsidiaries operates over 90 country grain elevators. It.
 eight terminal elevators at Chicago and fits two at Kansas City constitute
 25 per cent. of the total elevator capacity of those cities. In 1917, it.
 sales were 74.g17,0 ,0Oo bushels or 22.t per cent. of all grain receipts at Chi cago, the worlds greatest market; and
 its business is growing rapidly. IT
 connection with its chain of country elevators. the Armour Grain Company