The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-30
The Live Stock Shipping Assn.
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CluD plan. fernapS Jne IirSI real con-
structive part of the program should
be considered the organization Of
Live Stock Shipping Ashland the
plan is simple. The Clubs at given
shipping point adopt a Constitution
and Bylaws provided by the Missouri
Farmers Association, select Board
of Directors and appoint as Shipping
Manager some farmer who has good
knowledge of live stock. On certain
days in the week this Manager re-
ceives the stock which the members
have ready for market. Each mans
hogs, cows, heifers, bulls or sheep are
clipped with a pair of shears so they
can be identified at the stock yards
where each members stuff is sold on
its merits-and thus he receives a
check for what his animals brought at
the stock yards, less his part of the
shipping expense, rather than what it
pleased the local "hog buyers" to Of
fer. We have scores of these Ship
ping Associations in operation and ex-
perience has shown that our members
realize from soc to $1.50 per cwt.
more for their hogs and from 50 to
SO per cwt. more for butcher stuff than
where farmers continue to sell to the
local stock buyers. Wouldn't you like
to belong to such Shipping Associa-
tion in your community?
Big Profits in Poultry
Next comes a Produce Exchange
which takes over the handling of eggs,
live poultry and Greenland here is a
plan which alone during 1919 put not
less than a cold million dollars in ex-
ira profits into the pockets of our
members. Usually the Exchange is
capitalized at from $4,000 to $1,000
each member buying one or more
shares of stock at $40 each. Then
some bright young farmer is installed
as Manager and the eggs and live
poultry are consigned to one of the
big wholesale firms which are han
ding this Department for the Farm
Clubs. All over Missouri where our
Exchanges are in operation we have
advanced the price of eggs from SC to
10c per dozen. AS this is being writ
ten a private dealer at Conception
Junction, Missouri, where we recently
established an Exchange is paying 65c
per dozen for eggs while at another
point 10 miles distant where the same
dealer has house but where we have
not yet established an Exchange, he
is only paying 55c dozen. So dur
ing December many farmers wives
sold their turkeys for from 25c and
32c per pound, while the Farm Club
Exchanges paid as high as 45c per
pound. Is there any earthly sense for
the farmers of Missouri to longer SUBJ
nit to this robbery when the Farm
Clubs offer them way out and when
| $4,000 will finance an Exchange?
Likewise we have contract with
several large creameries which nets
our Exchanges &c per pound more for
butterfat than non-members receive.
Usually our Exchanges carry flour,
mill feed, etc, at those points which
do not justify Farmers Elevator and
they also ship out green hides and
furs and thus obtain the wholesale
price on these items. The poultry
products of Missouri are worth some
thing like $100,000,000 annually-and
our farmers are literally sacrificing
millions of dollars every year to the
present system. Do you and your
neighbors want to keep on losing your
share of these millions?
The Farm Club Grain Elevators
Next--and as important as anything
else--are the Farm Club Grain Eleva-
tors. During the last twelve months,
something like 10 points were taken
over and the present rate of progress
the Farm Clubs will be in possession
of rs per cent of the Grain Elevators
of Missouri at the end of the next 18
months. Whenever the Farm Club
shipped last years wheat crop our
members netted from 10c to zoe per
bushel more than other farmers re-
ceived where the local dealers had
things their own way. In such coun-
ties as Charlton, Clark, Scotland,
Greene, Saline, Polk, Montgomery and
Franklin we have already taken over
the lions share of the elevators, while
many other counties are rapidly fol-
lowing suit. And here is a typical ex-
ample which shows what the farmer
is losing in the sale of his grain: In
1.-The winter of 1919 we organized a
Farm Club Elevator at Triplett, Mo-,
with paid up capital of $1,000. Then
the old private elevator was bought
out for $4,000 and when the financial
statement was published several
weeks ago it showed that after our
directors had paid the cost of man
agement, set aside 10 per cent in the
reserve fund, paid per cent interest
on the capital stock of $500, they
had $500 left to divide among their
members in proportion to the grain
each member had sold or the commo-
dities he had purchased. In other
words, this Elevator paid all costs of
management, z per cent on the capi-
tai, 10 per cent in the reserve fund
and then our members had left $1,000
more than the old elevator cost them
in the first place. And we could cite
dozens of similar examples which show
that the farmers of Missouri are sac
rificing millions yearly to the present
grain selling system. If you ship out
as much as 80 carloads of corn, wheat
and oats from your station yearly,
then you need Farm Club Elevator
and our State Association will glad
lly furnish complete instructions, ar
ticles Of incorporation and also has
in its employ high class contractor
who can invoice an old plant for you
or furnish blue prints for a new one.