Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-01-29
Farm Bureaus Now Turn Hand To
Operating Live Stock Commission
Firms in Direct Marketing Drive
BY RORERT FULLER

Ntlt''h EPccIhl'N 'cf (ht j roy U.s.
Go operative live s'ock commission
firms, .peratel by live stock roducerJ
and hing the backing }: the Ameri
e.. In Bureau Federation, are to be
established throughout the Middle West
and Southwest at once FOR the purpose
# protecting the interest, OF the farm.
crS.
The moycmeu: has taken tangible
form IN %ebias 40, l...I,., aA4 M,Aap.
sofa, where cooperative live stock com
mission firms are operated successfully
by producers at Omaha, Chicago and
st. Paul. Similar exchanges will DO
opened in Denver, Fort Worth and Kan.
sas City within the next few weeks and
later it is planned to open Such Offices
III every cattle marketing center of the
whole country.
With the new year, President J. X.
Howard and Vice President o. Z. Brad.
flute, of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, selected fifteen bona ade
live stock raisers from among 200 rep.
resentativo cattle, sheep and hog raisers
from the principal live stock-producing
states and empowered them with au.
thority to take the necessary steps to.
ward organizing cooperative live stock
associations wherever deemed feasible.
/ This latest and one of the most i'm.
portant Of \. +. B. F. committee, Is
composed of the following men;
Members OF the Committee.
w. A. COehel, Kansas City, No., req.
tesenting tle American Short horn
Breeders Association; J. ". Anderson,
st. Paul, Mimi, president Equity Co.
operative Exchange; Harry q. Beaie,
Mount Sterling, Ohio, treasurer Of the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; W. J..
'sas'niftifatfi chicsso. sesretary If the
"esiohai swim. Growers Association;
{. Z. Collins, Kit Carson, COL, presi
dent Farmers Union Of Colorado; Z. H.
Cunningham, secretary Of Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation, Ames, Ia; Howard
NJ. Gore, Ciarksburg, W. Va; C. H.
Gustavson, Lincoln, Neb., chairman
Farmers Grain Marketing Committee
If Seventeen; y. p. Houston, Malta
Bend, Mo; j. Il. kcndrick, Sheridan,
Wa. I :. Senator and president of
.t'.e amrIc4A National Live Stock AS
! !, .-,..'i - coautho. of the kendrick
hcy non bill in Congress; W. A.McKer-
row, st. Paul, Mimi; W. II. Mumford,
Chicago, head of Live Stock Marketing
Department, Illinois Agricultural Asso.
citation; J. Fl. skinner, Lafayette, Ind.
dean ii Shoot Of Agriculture. porluc
University; A. Sykes, Ida Grove, Iowa,
president of the Corn Belt Meat Pro-
ducers' Association, and o. .. Wolff,
President Of the Kansas Agricultural
Council
8 Omaha Exchange Pays Big.
The present live stock marketing sys'
TEN is operated largely against the IN
terests of the farmer and stock raiser.
There is too wide margin OF profits
between the prices paid producers for
beet cHttle or hogs and the price OF
meat paid by the city consumer The
operation of the Omaha Cooperative
Commission Exchange has been so pro-
fitable in the last yeur that fully 80 per
cent Of the expenses for handling the
lcattle aud hogs at the Amaha yards
have been related 10 the members Of
the cooperative exchange. As result
the exchange is handling all the live
stock it is equipped TO fake care OF and
will be enlarged 10 serve its members
President Howard wants cooperative
live stock commission Offices to have re-
presentation in every Live Stock EI'
change throughout the country. Theirs
is too large a margin Of profit which
now goe. TO the middlemsn between the
price of Hive stock on the hoof and the
price Of meat paid by the consumer
The producer Of late hes been receiving
around : 10 ~ cents pound '0r ms
steers at the principal stock Jard' while
the rriep Of meet In the cities ranges
from so 70 50 cents pound.