The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-10
FOR NATIONAL COOPERATIVE
 MARKET PLAN

Chicago, Nov. 1o-For the second time this year farmers of the country meet here today to consider lannSho marketing movement This time it is of livestock. After working nine months a fapmers livestock commit tee of 16 named by the American an Farm Bureau Federation brings in it's report today to ratification confer ence representative of livestock pro- ducers.
 Unlike the national grain market ing plan adopted last spring and in corporatsd in the U. s. Grain Crow CTS Inc. the livestock plan calls for no pool nor contract covering a period of years
 Establishment of a national live stock producers association is one | of the outstanding features of the program 1atd before today's meeting. i More important yet, as the heart 9f l the plan. is the creation of co- citations at the various stockyards. with allied stocker-and-feeder com panies.
 Cooperative livestock commission | companies, which have recently ! grown numerous, are to be strength | ened. A program of orderly market | ing is to be worked out. A transpor-
 tation department is to be created. ! Livestock statistics are to be inter
 preIed. In addition it is advaneinz i ON>~SA~ | food.
 When the plan proposes to do in
 short, Is to greatly extend the CO., operative marketing of livestock from
 do this through a national organiza- | tion, overseeing, dovetailng and working out plans, and to eventually regulate to a considerable degree the
 prevent gluts and disastrous price | breaks.
 What is expected for the farmer is
 a larger voice in the sale of his live stock, a saving in marketing costs, a saving in purchase and sale of stocker and feeder cattle and eventu- i ally more stabilized market.
 through large numb CTS of farmers 1 marketing together 1t is anticipated
 they may be able to sell to better ad- | vantage than the individual farmer does today.
 If the plan is ratified today, as it is
 anticipated 1t will be formation of | the National Livestock Producers' as-
 sociation is expected at this meeting. Several cooperative livestock Oom-
 mission houses have recently been
 formed, and more will be establish ed | as soon as practicable.
 The livestock business runs into the
 hundreds of millions of dollars an- ] nually and proponents of the plan
 anticipate substantial share Of this but have no expectation of getting it
 all. Extension of the plan will chiefly
 affect small and insufficient privately
 owned livestock commission firms on the various markets, according to the
 committee which says 1t is generally
 recognized there are too many ot | these now operating to handle the business efficiently.
 The problem of orderly marketing, however, does not admit of so ready
 an approach. The orderly marketing subcommittee reports today that the 1ieIo | marketing of the different kinds of
 livestock is a long time process. Three 1 is no easy way or any outstanding short cut"
 A broad campaign of education, dependable statistical information, in- telngently interpreted. organization of 1 large number of producers on a l strictly cooperative basis, and some | regulation of conditions and voluTne @ | of production are declared essential | to orderly marketing.