Evening star., 1921-11-10
FARMERS in JOINT
L|VEST0eK.SAlES
80 - = > : ; - 7.l11--
Meet in Chicago Today to Es-
tablish Cooperative Mar
keting Project.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. November 10.-Fo- the
second time this year farmers Of the
country meet here today to consider
launching Of a national cooperative
marketing movement. This time it
is of live stock. After working nine
months q farmers live. stock COM,
mtttee OF fifteen, named by the Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation, brings
conference representative of live
stock producers. .
Unlike the national grain marketing
plan adopted last spring and incor-
porated in the United States Grain
Growers. Inc, the live stock plan
calls for no pool or. contract cover
ing period of years. .-.,
Establishment of national live
stock producers association is one of
the outstanding features of the pro-
More important yet. as the heart of
the plan, Is the creation of co-opera-
tive live stock c0mmiss on associa-
tons, at the various stockyards, with
allied stocher-and-feeder companies.
VIII Strengthen Companies.
Cooperative live stock 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
Live stock statistics are to be inter-
preted In addition it is advancing
public appreciation Of meat as a food.
short. Is to greatly extend the CO.
operative marketing Of live stock
from the farmer to the packing house,
to do this through national organ
ization. overseeing, dovetailing and
working out plans. and eventually to
regulate to a considerable degree the
now of live stock to market so as
to prevent gluts and disastrous price,
breaks.
WHAT is expected for the farmer Is
stock, q saving in marketing costs,
saving in purchase and sale Of
stocker and feeder cattle and event
ually a more stabilized market.
Through large numbers of farmers
marketing together it is anticipated
vantage than the individual farmer
does today
If the plan is ratified today. as it is
anticipated it will be, formation Of
the National Live Stock Producers
Association Is expected at this meet
ing. Several cooperative live stock
| commission houses have recently been
formed, and more will be established
as soon as practicable. -... -
Large Amount Involved.
The live stock business runs into
the hundreds Of millions of dollars
annually and proponents of the plan
anticipate a substantial share of this
but have no expectation of getting 1t
all. Extension of the plan will chiefly
affect small and insufficient privately
owned live stock commission Arms on
the various markets. according to the
committee, which says It Is generally
recognized there are too many OF
live stock Is long time process
business efficiently.
The problem of orderly marketing
however. does not admit of SO ready
an approach. The orderly marketin,
subcommittee reports today that the
Accomplishment # the more orderly
marketing of the different kinds of
livestock is a long = time process,
There Is no easy way OF any out
standing short cut"
A broad campaign Of education. de-
pendable statistical information, IN
diligently Interpreted, Organization
of large numbers Of producers on
strictly cooperative basis, and som
regulation Of conditions and voium.
of production are declared essent1a
to orderly marketing.
The chairman of the committee
bringing in the report of the live stock
marketing committee is c.. H. GUSTAV.
SON of Lincoln. Neb., who performed
a similar task this spring for ,thf
farmers grain marketing committet
rector OF the live stock marketfn,
department of the Illinois AEricul-,
tural Association, before that a pro.
fessor in the Agricultural College OF
the. University Of Illinois, is secretary
OF the committee. ;--'' '-..