The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-12
NATIONS FOOD SUPPLY
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IF food animals: and in livestock trade
l papers on which growers ana l"cdcrS
| rely for market news.
The Ramihcations.
! They are Interested IN banks from
: which their competitor packing houses
borrow money; IN companies supplying
! machinery. ice. salt, materials. boxes
etc. Ia themselves and their cu'nprt;-
tors: they ar" principal dealers on the
provision exchanges whcr" future prices
In standard cured products are deter
. mined: they or their subsidiary C"mpan,
! les deal in hides. Ol"U. fertilizer material
, and other crude animal by-prudurtS:
purchase from other packers th"s" crude
, by-produCts, apd themselves carry IN"
I manufacture thereof To Il further stag"
A: than most OF their competitors.
| "Thcy are important factors IN thC
leather industry, in olromarG"rlnc and
! lard substitutes. in COttUn-Srcd OIL, IN
fertilizer. in soap. in glue. etc.
Their vast distributing system, WIN
the advantages arising from the control
! Of private cars. cold storage. and Il net
work of branch houses. has cna hlcd them
10 extend their activities on large scale
into poultry. eggs. cheese. butter rice.
breakfast foods. canned vegetables. soda
| fountain supplies, and other lines.
Prom rendering edible fats from
what would otherwise be wasted IN their
own factories they have reached out TO
secure for rendering the waste fat and
bones Of local butchers in large sections
Of the country. and in som" instances
are interested in companies CONTRACTING
for the disposal Of garbage Of larg"
cities.
Tho Ar1nours
Individuals Of tho Armour family ar"
! owners Of grain and elevator companies
and J. Ogden Armour and tho president
|, Of one of the Armour subsidiaries are
Il important stockholders in n company
producing from mineral deposits in Utah
Il substitute for potash as an element or
commercial fertilizers.
~ Ogden Armour IS also prominent
\ factor in the American International
Corporation, with its shipping and ship
building interests, its import ana export
companies in various lines. its interest
in a company organized to develop cattle
raising, meat packing quchrachc extract
and allied businesses in Paraguay: IT'S
control Of a large tca-importlnE COM
pany and a sugar-machncry corporation.
and its minority stock In the United
Fruit Company. Some of Swift d Co. y
subsidiaries are growing tropical IruitS
in Hawaii; subsidiary "t Nl!S"n a 90"
Inc. has reached into tho Salmon fisher
les of Alaska, and a Morris concern cans
shrimp taken in the waters OF the CUR
Of Mexico. Cattle brought from Central
i America arc slaughtered by or for some
OF the big packers at Mobile and Jack
sonville. In England, Franco. Italy. liol-
land and other European countries large
Notwithstanding companies nave Dcrn
organized Dy the p"ChcIS ~ 81
meats from their plants in the United
States, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay,
Brazil, and Australia.
The Big Five the report shows. have
control of or interest in pubic utiiity
| South St. Paul, Portland, ore. SGuth
San Francisco. South ST. Joseph MO;
Hill City. Mimi, Fort Worth, Tex" ana
Chicago. -
As to financial power; the, report in
mart SAYS; The packer has drawn To a
marked degree upon banks or the coun-
try for liquid funds. he could not opcr-
ate on the scale he does without tn" very
large loans furnished by the banks. 10
assure himself loans ample 10 his pur-
pose the big packer has secured anll!a
ton through stock ownership, reprcScn-
tation on directoratcs. and in other ways
with numerous banks and trust comntn-
les Mr.. Armour. Mr.. Swift. Mr.. Morrls
and Mr.. Wilson are directors IN BANKS
| affiliated closely with those wh" ar"
| strong at the sources of credit in the
| United states Being thus allied Win
the powerful interests at III" sources oi
| credit, the packers power Is great, NOT
| only for financing their own national
and international operations, but for ~
fecting, for good or for ILL., the credit
of cattle producers and Of competitors
or customers in any line.
The Big Five IN The Leather industry.
The packer invasion of the leather in
dustry Is shown in the report to nave
| reached the following point at the close
Of 1917: Armour. Swift, Morris ana VIII
son-Cudahy not being engaged IN ian,
Ming until the close Of l9l7-produccd
~ percent Of the country's total output
of sheep and lamb show stock: II per
cent Of sheep and lamb glove and other
stock: II percent of show stock ,ann"d
from calf KIP and ai SKINS S'h liI 'n n"a
% pcrcent Of other leather tanned from
such skins Except glove stocK); :.
percent Of shoe stock from cattle sldc. !:
| 10, lno 1
Of strap leather: 81 percent OF betting;
% percent of sole leather; and Is percen-
finished splits. =,
the United States by the Biz Five pack
ers as against all other interstate
slaughtcrcrs, the report shows, ranged
from 90.7 percent Of a total of 96.sS9.S5l
cent Of 1891 .S5S pounds on July 81.
1917, at no time dropping below ST.
percent
Armour G. Company, Swift & Company
and Morris d Company, the report
shows, produced In the fiscal year 1911.
approximately one fifth of the entire
production in the United States OF mixed
fertilizers, and one tenth Of acid nhos-
phate. Armour & Co. had 80 fertilizers
plants in various parts Of the country;
Swift & Co. had II plants Tor the manu-
facture Of mixed fertilizers and various
Swift Strengthening houses arc equipped
| with fertilizer plants.
PACKERS In tho Cottonseed OIL Industry
| The Big Five packers in the season OF
ilS16-1917 produced nearly one third OF
the nations entire refined cotton oil out
put Of 2O1,3S9.000 gallons. or 3l.S per
cent. Three other interests, the Proctor
& Gamble companies. the Southern Cot
ton Oil Company and the American Cot
ton Oil Company produced 1915 percent.
and all other companies, 25.6 percent. OF
| crude cottonsecd oil, the three of the
packers operating cotton oil mills. Swift.
Armour and Morris, produced only som"
s percent Of the total production. uSi<
however, large quantities purchaS, d
from other concerns in their manufac-
ture Of oleomarGerinc. lard compound.
cooking oils, soaps, fertilizers and other
products.
production of lard compound and lard
substitutes by Interstate slauGhtcrers
during the first half Of 1917 was 81 per
cent in the hands of the Big Five pack
ers, the report shows. Including all cot
tonseed oil manufacturers as we'll as in