The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-23
FARM BUREAU MAKES
INVESTIGATION into
WEIGHT Difference
One of Farmers Organizations Values
To Farmers Of the State Is Ex.
planned In Interview.

The story of how three calves lost
twenty pounds in weight in twenty-five
minutes while crossing from Kentucky
to Indiana and how when re-weighed
about one half minute later the three
calves put on again the twenty pounds
they had lost is told by Mr.. G. p.
Heath, President of the Trimble Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, Trimble county, Ken
lucky.
A general complain has been going
throughout the country on the weights
the farmers received on their live
stock at the hands of the Pearl Pack
ing Company, better known as "Yonk-
er's Place" The matter was reported
to the State Farm Bureau Federation,
Lexington, KY. and that organization
to the State Farm Bureau Federation,
and brought about the investigation
reported by Mr.. Heath in the follow
ing statement;
ION May 10Th, received letter
from Geoffrey Morgan, Lexington, KY,
Secretary Of the State Farm Bureau,
with copy of another letter enclosed
from Mr.. H. C. Reid of the Indiana
Federation of Farmers Associations,
of Indianapolis, Ind, asking him to
meet the Scale Inspector at Madison
on Monday night, May oath. On ac-
count of previous engagements Mr.
Morgan could not meet him and asked
me to represent him, also to make ar
rangements for some stock to be
weighed, which together with Secre-
tary ]. l.. Luckett. did.
after meeting the Inspector. Mr..
White. of Shelbyvtlle, Ind, he suggest
ed that he come to the Kentucky side
Tuesday morning and test a scale on
which to weight three calves being
hauled by the Bedford Truck consign-
ed by NJ. f. Sanders. NJ. 7, Fisher and
Theodore Persell to the Pearl Packing
Co. Mr.. White came to the Kentucky
side and tested the scale of ]. P.
Strother, weighed the above men
toned calves, loaded same back in the
truck, and followed them to the Pearl
Packing Company's scale, where they
we're weighed twenty-five minutes
later by Gus Yonker in person. Imme-
diately after the calves had been
weighed and the tickets for same is
sued, Mr.. White, the Indiana Scale,
Weight and Measure Inspector who
was waiting just on the outside, walk
ed in and called for the tickets and
when examined found them to be twen-
| ty pounds short.
"Mr. White demanded that the calves
be re-weighed, without testing or
changing the scale in any way. The
calves were driven back on the scale
and re-weighed by Mr.. White, weigh
ing exactly what they did twenty-five
minutes previous on J.. P. Strother's
scales at Milton, Ky. Mr.. Yonker's only
defense was that all live stock deal
ers bought by up weight and ordered
Mr.. White to change the tickets tt
correspond with his weights.
. The result of this one short weigh
of twenty pounds meant in dollars ant
cents loss of 81 to the farmer. Thos'
who are familiar with the volume o
business done by this company cal
readily see from this shortage wha
the losses might mean to the farme
during a period Of twelve months.
"The Farm Bureaus throughout tn
country are conducting these investi
cations and intend to continue. AL
the farmer ask is a square deal fror
. the Pearl Packing Company, or an
other company