The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-18

Grazing Of Cattle ExpIaine,
prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture.l
The big stockyards Of the country
are being used temporarily for short
course schools. Instruction of very
practical sort is being conducted,
namely, in the best methods of mar
keting live stock. One Of the first Of
these schools was co. Quoted in the
National stOckyards at East st. Louis,
ILL.,, few weeks ago, and was such
a pronounced success that the stu
dents" unanimously passed resolu-
lions urging that similar purses be
offered semiannualV.
The bureau of n lrkets Of {. , Chit
ed States department of agriculture in
cooperation with the National FEEDER
alton Of Live Stock Shipping associ-
atoms has been instrumental in pro-
noting this work.
This instruction is given primarily
Tor managers Of live ste X shipping
associations and others directly in
terested in shipping live stock. A
course similar to that given at St.
Louis has been conducted in Kansas
City. Arrangements have been made
for repeating them In Omaha, Chica-
go, Sioux City. Detroit, South G..
Paul, and other cities.
Morning and Afternoon Glasses.
What was done at the Kansas City
meetings is typical of the instruction
in other cities. The course covered
three days. Glasses" opening at $780,
The first morning an offensive study
was made of the grade of cattle and
hogs largely marketed through ship
ping associations. 1t was a big SUBJ
ject to cover in single morning. but
the men were intensely eager for the
facts and there was no need for ped
agOgical repetition, nor were there
useless questions to take up the time
of the instructors.
The 1 80 o'clock session might be
called class in applied bookkeeping,
as the afternoon was given over to
accounting methods for shipping as
sociations. including much helpful ex-
PLANTATION of the methods of prOrating
shipments. There was help also for
managers about the regulations gov
eming freight rates and minimum
weights of mixed shipments. The case
of one shipper was cited who recently
was required to pay $50 more freight
on a mixed car of calves and pigs than
he would have incurred had he been
informed on the regulations.
1t was pointed out that the presence
pigs required that the minimum
weight for a car of cattle be used as
a basis of calculation instead of low
er minimum which is allowed for hogs.
the total had to be
at the hog rate" which is
higher than the cattle rate. The men
present felt that many single points
like this brought out at the sessions
more than repaid them for all the
time and money spent in attending the
classes.
A conference of the managers was
also held the first afternoon at which
they took up the problems of shrink
nge and similar questions.
Reporting Service Explained.
Addresses were given by representa-
tives of the bureau of markets the
morning of the second day, in which
the bureaus market reporting service
was fully explained. Representatives
Of the local stockyards company and
the local live stock exchange also
spoke. One Of the subjects to which
they called special attention was the
development of cooperative
of live stock. The grading
IF sheep and lambs was explained by
buyers for packing houses and repre-
Ientatives of commission firms.
In the afternoon the men were given
, chance to see how the different
aasses of animals skilled out" that
S, the character Of the various car
.asses from the standpoint of the
butcher. or packer. Everything said
vas specific and practical. When It
.ame 10 a detailed discussion Of the
,alue of carcasses of this or that
.rade all the figures, brought right up
o date, were supplied by officials Of
he packing plant. In the same way
he men secured much valuable infOr-
nation regarding the special demand
yhich each class of meat supplies. On
he third and last day much Of what
lad been given in the two previous
laws was repeated for the benefit Of
,eyeral men who had been unable to
lttend earlier sessions.
The schedule Of most Of the schools
.alls for visits to the stocker and feed
r divisions Of the hog and sheep
ards, on the morning Of the third
lay. How a manager can assist in
thin animals Of UOOd nnal.