The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-25
COOP LIVE STOCK SALES

For the week ending Saturday, Oct
IA the various Producers Live Stock
Sales associations reported the follow
ing number of cars handled: Chicago
association, 129 cars; st. Louis assoc
iation, 148 cars; Indianapolis associa-
ton, 1913 cars; Peoria association, II
cars, or grand total of 432 cars of
the four associations, doing business
under the plan of the committee of Is
The total salaried list of the four
cooperative offices consists of 124 per-
sons, among which are managers,
statesmen, yardmen, bookkeepers, cor
respondence clerks, stenographers and
proraters. No director of these con-
Germs is on the payroll at any office
At Chicago the sales association
stood ninth in the amount of live stock
handled; at st. Louis it ranked Sec
ond, while at Indianapolis the Pro-
ducers led all other firms in the num-
Der of cars and truck loads sent over
the scales.
The Producers went into action at
East Buffalo, New York, on Monday.
East Buffalo is only farmers market
in a modest way, but is a fairly large
shippers or speculative buyers mar
ket. 1t is not expected that the BUSH
ness done at Buffalo will at all COM
pare with that done at western points
Still, the business may grow to be
larger than now anticipated, as the Of
flee has the endorsement of the Ohio,
Michigan and Indiana farm bureaus,
and some live stock will no doubt be
consigned from each state, right at
the start Much will depend on the
nTiNn1 YdaIi1nd ryifh
paid to shippers at markets nearer
home. and compared with freight
costs.
Minnesota Grain Growers, Inc.
The U. S. Grain Growers Sales COM
pany of Minnesota, of which mention
was recently made in this column, has
been sending out letters to signers of
the U. S. G. G. contract, in which it
states that the opening of this sales
agency marks the contamination OF
weeks of effort on the part of the
farm bureau leaders There are no
ifs and ands about this undertaking.
The doors are open. We are ready
for business. Just as quickly as pos
sible farmers who have q. S. Grain
Growers contracts will be officially
notified that they are in effect. Sue
SCoo VI Jul CAOl % Will uSpGuU, 10 4
large degree, on the loyalty of the
farmers" The new concern is in posi-
ton to make direct sales to millers
and exporters, and is entirely non
speculative.
When Russia Completes
Samuel Adams, president of the
American Agricultural Editors asso..
citation, has come to the conclusion
that Russian competition in the wheat
markets of the world is much nearer
than is generally supposed Mr.. Adams
says that while many authorities are
claiming that it will take from seven
to ten years for Russia to produce an
export surplus of grain, it is his opin.
ion that Russia is fast getting into
shape to again become a grain export
ing country, and that, from present in
dications that time is not far away,
say from two to four years. He says
Russia will soon become a figure in
agricultural production and concludes
by asking: "Then,to what depth will
our grain prices fall? Who knows?"
Mr.. Adams has just returned from
four months in Europe, in which time
he hastily visited 10 different coun-
tries. Just how many days he spent
in Russia is not stated, but surely four
months are too few to dig up all the