Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-09-22
BIG LOT Or LIVESTOCK
SHIPPED
COMPARATIVELY

Two thousand four hundred and
fifty-seven livestock shippers IN 81
Ohio counties during August shipped
374 doors of livestock cooperativel.
according to reports just received by
II. G.. Ketner, director of livestock
and grain marketing Of the Ohio
Farm Bureau Federation.
The report shows that these ship
pers sent out 21,732 hogs, 6S7 cattle
1909 calves and 69G5 sheep, total CT
80, ,633 animals. They had a total
weight OF 5,480,071 pounds and net
ted the shippers $500, 2,258.63, after ali
costs including handling, freight anG
insurance were paid. The average
cost at which these animals wer,
shipred, including everything, was 73
cents hundred pounds. Sclotc
county, because of its proximity t.
market, had the smallest cost, A.
cents. The heaviest cost, 92 cents
was paid by Shelby county shippers.
Pittsburg received most of the
shipments. Other terminals Were
] Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Tole-
do and Huntington.
The counties reporting are Athens
Auglaize, Champaign, Clinton, Co
Greene, Hardin, Henry, Huron, Jack
son, Knox, Licking, Logan, Madison
Mercer, Morgan, Morrow, Muskin
gum, Perry, Pike, Putnam, Ross
Scioto, Seneca, Shelby, VanWert
! Wood and Wyandot.
Membership Drives Closing
Union county's farm bureau mem
, bership campaign which was begul
IL HOf FOL q
!, 757. In Guernsey county the cam
, paign is still going, but will be clos
: ed soon, with a membership of abou
800.
,, Name Dairy and Fruit Marketing
Committees
', Committeeman to work out nation
+ al marketing plans for dairy ali
fruit products have recently bee
! named by President J. R. Howard O
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. w. f. Farnsworth, of Water
! vile, Lucas County, has been ap
9 pointed on the fruit committee of q
: and Harry Hartke, of Erlanger, Ken
G lucky, in the Cincinnati dairy dis
9 trict, on the dairy committee o
: eleven. These committees are eX
q pected to work out dairy and frui
marketing plans in much the sam
4 manner as the Committees of II an
Is of the American Federation hav
formulated nationwide grain an
:, livestock marketing plans.
. . Seek Best Plan For Livestock Com
pany
An ideal form, of farmers cooI
erative livestock shipping compan
is being sought by farmers repre-
sentatives for use over the Unite
States. In order to determine tn
best plan, the Livestock Marketin
n Committee of the American FAR
q Bureau Federation has appointed
:. special committee of five to draft
4 specimen constitution and bylaw
e One of the members of the speci;
a; committee is S. w. Doty of the liv;
II stock marketing department of I'll
Is Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
u Recommendations for organizin
ii and managing cooperative livestoC
III shipping associations are expected
be made in Chicago on September
g ! at committee meeting of the Amer
L can Federation.
le F'ourty-four Ohio counties hay
. countrywide livestock shipping con
le panies.
Il Fruit Growers Plan Cooperative
Selling E.
le The Ohio Farm Bureau FederatiC
D is now actively assisting fruit groV
n ers in their organization work f,
III collective selling.
Is Meetings have been held in Lay
lr renee, Ottawa, Mahoning and Colur
biana counties and some other cou
IL ties are planning to organize.
c. w. Waid, who has charge of Il
Vegetable Marketing work for Il
Federation, has been assigned Il
e. work of assisting the fruit grove
d. of the state in the organization ma
keting work until such time as ii
work demands an organizer.
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