The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-15

VI tudI neglect tndL nOSS IN packed
not cars, often died.
The speaker making the statement
said that 1.-THE crews supposed to quit
at six left for home at five, at least in
one section of the yards, leaving one
man to ring out for them at six
O'Clock. A new crew came on at six,
and after ringing in, dressed, smoked
and talked till perhaps seven o'clock,
then got leisurely to work" In the
meanwhile these hogs came late on
the market and out of condition, COM
pared to what they would have shown
had they been yarded during the cool
OF the morning, and had water and
feed at the right time.
Handle Hogs More Promptly.
According to this speaker 1.-The fed
GRAFTON made a complete case and took
the matter up with the authorities to
such good effect that there has since
been no complaint of late unloading,
! except on late arrivals" That hogs
arriving toward morning in stuffy cars
| in crowded yards should be allowed to
swelter for hours when there were
men paid for their quick and humane
unloading does not seem reasonable,
but such was often the case, this
DPCohOf III Optil HlcclluS
hundreds Of farmers present. He also
| said that the loading and unloading
walks were all readjusted so that
| fewer cripples showed up, from
stepping through" this accounting for
bruises and broken legs in many
| instances.
Ii would hardly seem reasonable
that such conditions would have been
permitted to exist, prior to the work
done by the federation, but soch is
the charge and the federation is
taking credit for the betterments.
No Sunday Feed or Water.
THE best thing the federation has
ever done for stock shippers" said
one speaker, was the locating a man
at the yards. He discovered that not
all stock was either watered or fed
on Sunday. This was denied by the
officials, SO a survey was made and a
watch kept on numbered pens. Asked
as to these on Monday the officials
said they were sure the animals in
these pens had been properly cared
for on this particular Sunday, and
certainly had all the water they cared
to drink. On being taken to the pens
selected it was shown that these pens
never had watering facilities, and the
OHlCldlS ndu 10 DaCk DOWN.
To Put Man in Cincinnati.
If all of this is true, and there
seems TO be no good reason to ques
ton these reports. the Indiana fedora
ton has accomplished something
worth while at Indianapolis, with
relation to the handling of live stock
The federation folks are planning tc
locate a yard man at Cincinnati ir
conjunction with Ohio and Kentucky
farm organizations. These men have
already done lot of good with refer
ence to weighing in. They establish
ed scales outside the yards and follow
cd the loads through. Just what
happened is best explained by the
statement that one publication in the
newspapers of what the difference il
weights showed. was all that wa!
needed to straighten things out
Cooperative Marketing Service.
|; Three different organizations came
together at Indianapolis this week ant
the result is a cooperative marketing
service for the benefit of all three
The Indiana Farm Federation, TIL,
Indiana State Grange and the Farmers
Grain Dealers association, which has {
limited membership as yet, formed {
combination and elected officers, a:
follows:
President, J. E. Leavitt, Vernon
Ind: vice-president-treas Franz
w. Boyle, College Corner, Ohio; secre
tary. Joseph Minch, OF Chalmers, Ind.
E. G. McMullum, representing thu
Farmers elevators will he the genera
manger of the service.
The title of this wheeI-within-w wheels
service, is-The Federated Marketin.
Service, and it will be established a
. indianapolis at an early date. Thu
executive committee consists of Mau
: rice Douglas, Flat Rock; JOSEPH
{ Minch, of Chalmers, and Frank w
+ Boyle, of College Corner. Each o
the three organizations have thre'
: directors in the new marketing or
ganization. The purpose of the agree
! ment rs to enable all cooperative or
CARNATIONS in Indiana TO operat
efficiently, uniformly and economically
and for the extension of the CO
operative marketing systems, wher
ever practicable" The idea is to eX
tend cooperative buying as well a
selling operations, and the uniting O
. these functions of all the Federated
r bodies under one head.
1t is TO be hoped that the manage
of this department is a broad, wei
= informed and practical man, for onl
f that kind of a man can make ii go.
1t will take but a short time to de
velop the value of this consolidate
! action to the individual shipper of al
t the commodities handled, also tn
= benefits accruing to buyers through
I quantity buying and distribution t
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