The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-01-20
WOOD, MELLETTE COUNTY SOUTH dakota JANUARY ~ 1922
FARM BUREAU NEWS NOTES
By A. S. GRAY, County Agent.
COOPERATIVE SHIPPING ASSOCIATION


Cooperative shipping OF live stock
In Mellette and Jones counties is no
longer speculation but a reality
which has paid well, and warrentS the
attention of every farmer and rancher
who has livestock to ship,
For over year shipping asSocia-
tlon has been sending cooperative
shipments from Murdo, and in almost
every car that was shipped cQnSld-
cradle increase was secured over the
highest locai bid. Costs Of market
Ing have been decreased, and the
small shipper has been provided a
short and quick road to market.
Manager Babcock, at Murdo informs
me that he has received a check Irum
The Farmers Union Commission Cou-
pauy, which is prorated dividend
on commission charges at Sioux City
amounting TO 40 per cent of all com
missions paid to 1t blythe association
during 1921. This will be prorated
back TO the original shippers, who
shipped through the association to
Sioux City, Here is another saving
worth considering.
In an effort to give a clearer idea Of
the workings of the association have
taken two car loads Of hogs which
were recently shipped through tile as
soclatlon and am going 10 show each
individuals shipments and his gross
returns. Each shippers hogs are
marked. and sold separately, SO that
no matter what the quality Of tie
other mans hogs may be, his will sell
entlreiy on their own merits and re-
Ia 10 .t
hard way TO sell live stock, but the
association is able TO get the best pos
slOle prices through this procedure.
u costs for shipping are paid by the
shipper according 10 the tOUal weight
ne ships.
For example car number one. There
WereslX shippers, with a total Of GI
hogs weighing IA, 200 pounds at Murdo,
with shrink OF 242 pounds on the
car, leaving net weight OF l4,U4S at
Mitchell. The total selling price was
SSS6.O4 and total charges on tie car
were vi 80, leaving a net selling price
OF $3.50 OS. REPRESENTATIVE shipments
were as fol lows:
Nels lverSon, 20 h3 a. net weight
5l20. selling plicc oJ.t'. net returns
all cosIs deducted 1881 76; Joe Brocker
d head net weight 1907, price So 60,
net returns $8i 90; .. G.. Wilson, 8
head net weight 1887 at 1926, and II
head net weight sold at ST % with
net return OF S2S4, 80; O. l.. McCul-
Tough 3 head with net weight Of $50
sold at $6 90 hundred with net re-
turns OF $37,6l; G. j. Wolf one hog
net weight 54l sold at So % net re-
turns Of S27 Is; Chas Lemme head
net weight 1888 sold for $500 with
net returns Of Sl02 81.
The second car was held and fed i'm
In MurdO for few days in order to
completely fill out the car. This is
given to show that the farmers can
now bring stock into Murdo and leave
1T there for several days at a very rea-
sonable rate and in this manner they
are able to hold over stock that comes
In.
In this car there were seven ship
pers with total of 20 hogs with to-
tai weight OF 1920 pounds, less to-
tai shrink OF 2l5 pounds, leaving a to-
tai net weight at Mitchell Of Is, 265
pounds. Total selling price Of all
shipments was ST., ,0lS Is and the total
cost including feed and insurance at
Mitchell, sinking fund. managers fee,
and feed at Murdo was $40 81, leaving
net selling price for the car OF 1907 "a
Now i will take the individual ship
pers report Of Gust Peterson TO Illus
trate his complete transaction includ-
ing all data. He had In all % head.
as follows: 10 head weighed 1855
pounds at Murdo, the shrink on this
lot was ten pounds and tiey sold at
Mitchell at 2975 for 800 a hundred
bringing $20S %, in addition he had
III head more which had a IL pound
shrink and total net weight at Mitch
ell Of 2699 which sold for $6 Is bring
ing S193.05 One hog was crippled
when he got his big load to Murdo
from Mellette county and WAS sold
locally I'm Murdo. 1t weighed 275
pounds and sold for $500 hundred
bring $l3 10.
Thus his % head sold for $4l5 90 and
liis total expense through the associa-
tion was Sl64S, netting him 1888 81,
which was deposited in his bank at
White River as soon as the returns
were received.
Now here is what it cost him
hundred weight. In selling the hogs
at Mitchell two items Of expense are
done away with, freight and commits
sion charges. The cost per hundred
is given. Feed and insurance, Scents
per hundred, sinking fund cents,
managers labsr S cents, feed at Murdo
IL cents, with total cost Of II cents
"A hundred. This you will notice in
cludes several days feed at Murdo and
still is comparatively low, in fact
much less than the one-half cent un-
der Sioux City we have heard SO much
about. And when the car is loaded
right out, as most Of them are, this
would be reduced IL cents hundred
making ii only about Is cents for ship
ping charges.
Gust Peterson Is enthusiastic about
this shipment and is doing what he
can 10 get his neighbors into good hab
its, along the shipping lines. Try it
and see what it will do for you. The
local shipping association is just the
thing for the farmer or rancher who
has only small number of head TO
ship, and 1t affords market so that
stock can be shipped as Ii gets fat.
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