The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-07-21
FARMERS WIN FIGHT.
Rates for Selling Are Ordered Cut in
South St. Paul Market by
Railroad Commission.
Operation of States Order, However,
Blocked by Court Action, Be-
gun by Opposite Side.

st. raul, July Il. -OHdIp IeuuCIiouo
in commissions to be charged by live
stock dealers on the South st. Paul
market were to have been in effect
this week under orders issued by the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion. Operation Of the states order,
however, was blocked by court action
begun by representatives of the live
stock commission interests. Until the
court passes on the case the new
rates set by the commission will be in
operative except that the difference
between existing rates and those or
dered by the commission must be set
aside as trust fund. If the courts
uphold the rates established by the
state commission the money thus held
in trust must be returned to livestock
shippers who paid the higher commits
sion after July II.
Reductions of from 20 to 40 per
cent were ordered by the commission
following hearings at which livestock
commission firms and livestock pro-
ducers were represented. The cuts in
commission rates represent a victory
for the farmers, who contended that
charges for handling agricultural
products should be reduced because
the value Of all farm products has
declined to prewar levels. Weighing
charges also were cut. The new COM
mission schedule issued by the COM
mission sets the following rates.:
Cattle, zoe head; $18 car maxi
mum.
Calves, 30c a head; 500 a car maxi
mum, in cars up to SO feet in length.
Hogs, in cars not over SO feet long,
zoe head; $12 maximum for single
deck cars, $18 maximum for double
deck cars; $14 maximum for single
deck cars more than SO feet long, $40
for double decks.
Sheep, zoe per head, $12 maximum
for single deck cars, $18 for double
deck cars not more than SO feet; $14
for single deck, $40 for double deck
cars more than 36<feet long.
When more than one kind of live
stock is in a car, $40 car SO feet
long maximum, $22 for longer cars.
Less than car lots and driven in
livestock, Soc head for cattle if less
than Is head; 35c head for calves
if less than % head; Soc a head for
hogs if less than rs head; 25c a head
for sheep and goats, if less than 80
head. Carload rates apply when the
number is larger
New commissions for buying live
stock are: Cattle, SOC a head with
maximum Of SIP car; calves, SOC a
head and $12 for single deck car;
mixers and springers, 81 head and
$40 for car maximum. Hogs, zoe a
head and $40 car maximum; feeding
pigs, SIS a single deck car or $2O q
double deck car. Sheep, 25c head
$40 2 single deck car and SIS double
deck car; breeding ewes, 3oc heao
and SIS single deck car, and $2o
double deck car. .,
Officers of the Minnesota Central
Co-operative Commission ASSOCIATION
the farmers new statewide selnns
agency, submitted evidence supporting
;+s claims that rates heretofore IN eli
foot were too high. The Minnesota
Farm Bureau federation presented u
the commission a statement urging
that, in setting new rates. the CON-
mission follow the principle ina
charges for handling farm prooue''
should bear definite relation to tn
.,.donc,n toward defiatiOn.