Arizona republican., 1921-02-11

those within the state, they may, with
the consent of the owner of the cattle,
ship the cattle to a market outside the
state, and they shall have power to
enter into a contract with the owner
of the cattle that in the event of those
cattle being sold on market outside
the state for a sum less than they VIII
bring If sold within the state, they
shall have the power to bind this asso-
citation to guarantee him against loss,
if any. under the amount which they
fixed as the amount they would bring
if sold within the state.
Cooperative Marketing
IF the cattle that are shipped out
side the state are sold at a profit, 90
per cent of that profit shall be turned
into this reserve fund until it reaches
s250000 In other words, if we tell a
cattle grower that we will sell his cat
tie for 10 cents and we sell it for IL
cents, he gets half of the 2 cent profit
and the association gets the other half
for the guarantee fund. If his cattle are
sold for less than 10 cents, the asso-
citation pays him the difference, so
that he is protected against any loss
whatever. The deficit that may be
made by selling cattle at less than we
say we will Is to be made up by an
assessment covering the entire state.
Suppose that the marketing COM
mittee meets and takes all the prices
at Kansas City. st. Joseph. Omaha and
Portland and other markets, and finds,
for instance, that the best price is at
Kansas City at cents. The commit
tee also finds that the freight, shrink
age and other charges will come TO
cents a pound. We guarantee the man
at the ranch 6 cents a pound for the
cattle that are satisfactory to our
agent, whom we will hire at good
salary and perhaps put under bond.
We ship the cattle. II they sell for
cents, half goes to him and half to
the fund If he wants his cattle to be
shipped without guarantee and they
bring 9 cents. he gets it all.
Whenever We need money to make
that cent price good we draw the
money from the bank and then we
make a note bearing 61a per cent in
terest. The notes given by the cattle
growers will not be drawing interest;
they will be call notes, and it will cost
the man that. makes one out only the
price of a stamp.
Handling Surplus the Secret
Now concerning the question of
small men, this business is proposed
to handle only the surplus and know
am right when 1 say that If you ham
die the surplus you handle the whole
game. If we ship out $4,000 No. top
cattle for we can't ship anything else
without getting feeder price. the No
2's will be at home. Properly handled
those No. rs will be sold here at a
much better price than ever before
because the good cattle are gone, the
surplus has gone, and the price for
those that are here is stabilized.
1.-THE expenses of handling the bust
ness will come out of the guarantee
Tt I,af
we will borrow Mind you, we are not
asking anybody to come up with any
money. We are asking the men that
have the long headedness, the vision,
to come up with something that we
can put up as collateral. III the small
man has only two steers that are fat
a regular steer--it will be the duty of
the marketing committee to take care
of those two cattle in conjunction with
enough more to make train load"
Following Mr.. Bixby's speech he was
given rising vote of thanks by the
convention. The election of officers
was then held, and when F. H. Crabb
had been given the post of president
he made short address of apprecia-
ton and of commentator of the work
during the year of the retiring presi-
dent, Charles p. Mullen. He spoke
in part as follows:
NEW PRESIDENT speaks
The range cattle business, as con-
Quoted practically all over Arizona, is
not,,s~inilar to conditions obtaining
inrnoss western states where cattle
are or can be finished for immedi
ate consumption. Arizona is mostly a
breeding ground from which cattle
are sent to the maturing pastures or
put in feed lots. On account of this
character of the business, our Arizona
Cattle Growers association is con-
fronted with even more difficult prob
lens, and, no doubt has a greater
need for organized effort than that
obtaining in such other states.
We have great many deserving
things to work out and accomplish.
With the compleXity of our situation
We have been slower to realize the
advantages in marketing as accom-
plished by producers of agricultural
products, but the time, | feel, is ripe
for us to delve exllaustively into this
and l feel we can make progress in
marketing problems by educating OUT
members through publicity of condi-
tons elsewhere, or in bringing togetil-
err the producer, feeder and packer of
meat in order to bring about a stable
or uniform market for feeder catriN, or
| in cooperation with other state asso-
cations We are vitality interested in
Iillducldi matters that IIle producer
may be accorded a just proportion of
credit; in railroad rates, routings and
other phases of shipping; in getting
cheap meat to the consumer and get
ting the people back to eating more
meat; in a permanent tariff measure,
in connection with which we expect to
have representation at Washington;
| in the matter of increased importations
of meat; and in other questions of ma
/ tionaI Significance.
/ During this next year or two admin
I istration on the national forests will
undergo several severe changes in pol
| icies and regulations, and this will con-
I stitute "a most vital question for the
association during the year, requiring
considerable investigation and work
! We are very much interested in the
classification of state and public land
| to bring about control or stabiliza-
ton of grazing, and in giving in many
ways, needed assistance to the cattle
men in increasing production, in pro-
| ducing better cattle and in reducing
! the costs of operation. We are now in
terested in a number of pieces of legis-