The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-14

plants in 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 a marked degree upon the banks of the country for liquid funds he could not operate on the scale he do"s without the very large loans furnished by the banks. To assure himself loans ample to his purpose, the big pa ecler has secured afiratiou through stock ownership, representa- tion on directorates, and in other ways, with numerous banks and trust companies. Mir. Armour, Mir. Swift, MT. Morris and Mir. 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 ternationa1 operations, but for affect ing. for good or for III, the credit of 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-produced 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 tam 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 | stock); 12 1-2 per cent. of shoe stock | from cattle sides; per cent. of har- ness leather; 45 per cent. of strap l leather; 21 per cent. of betting; 22 | per cent. of sole leather, and 13 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 90.7 per cent oi ! a total of 96,9S9,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 6 Co.,, Swift & Co. and Morris & Co.,, the report shows, pro- duced in the fiscal year of 1917, ap- | proNimately one fifth of the entire | production in the United States ot l mixed fertilizers, and one tenth o1 | acid phosphate. Armour & Co. ha6 | 30 fertilizer plants in various parts
 of the country; Swift & Co. had Il | plants for the manufacture of mixed | fertilizers and various Swift slaugh. | tering houses are equipped with fer. | tilizer plants.
 IN COTTONSEED OIL INDUSTRY The Big Five packers in the sea
 son of 1e16-1917 produced nearly
 one third of the nations entire re.
 fined cotton oil output of 2O1,3 ,0ot
 gallons, or SIS per cent. Three l other interests, the Proctor & Gam
 ble companies, the Southern CottoI | Oil Co. and the American Cotton Oi
 Co. produced 42.6 per cent. and al
 other companies. 25.6 per cent. O.
 crude cottonseed of, the three of tn,
 packers operating cotton oil mills
 Swirt. Armour and Morris. produced
 only some per cent. of the tota
 production, using however, larg'
 quantities purchased from other con
 cerns in their manufacture of oleo
 margarine. lard compound, cookint
 oils. soaps, fertilizers and other pro
 ducts
 Production of lard compound ana
 lard substitutes by interstate slaugh
 terers during the first half of 191,
 was ST per cent. in the hands Of tn,
 Big Five packers. the report shows
 Including all cottonseed oil manu
 lecturers as well as interstate slaueh
 terers. the Big Five production dur
 ing this period was 49.4 per cent
 average monthly holdings of lar,
 compound and lard substitutes by tn,
 Big Five during 1916 was 91.O ne,
 cent. of holdings of all interstat,
 slaushterers. Of cottonseed oil soa,
 stock for the season 191e-1917, tn,
 Big Five produced 3o.2 per cent. O the total for the country.
 Oleomargerine production for tn
 entire United States from July. 1911
 to June 1918. was 41.7 per cent con
 trolIed by Armour, Swift, Morris en, Wilson interests; and 74.1 per cent by the "O1eo Legislative Pool" em
 bracins beside these packers. John F
 Jelks O., and w. J. Mox1ey, Inc. In grains. the Armour Grain Com
 pany, Chicago, of which J. Ogdel Armour owns 64 per cent, of tn
 stock and other members of the Ar mour family 2z. per cent, directly o ; through its subsidiaries operate : over 90 country grain elevators. It [ eight terminal elevators at Chicag } and its two at Kansas City constitut ! 25 per cent. of the total elevate } caro city of those cities. In 1917. fl salos were 74.S47,00O bushels or 22- per cent. of all grain receipts at Chi cago, the worlds greatest market: an : its business is growing rapidly. I . connection with its chain of countr slevntors. the Armour 0FaIh Compan , mnrohand1xes fsrtiN&pr. 6eQd, COG