Imperial Valley press., 1922-09-06
TELLS VALUE OF
NEW STOCKYARDS
in Los ANGELES
Manager of Syndicate Tells
Importance to West of
New Venture
BY J A. MeNAUGHTON,
Manager Los Angles Syndicate and
T-p.np G{oaEx-arlS

manager Los Angles syndicate and
Union Stockyards
While making his recent survey of
livestock conditions in the west, Prof.
G. /. Christie, of Purdue University,
Indiana, who is one of the best known
livestock authorities in America, came
to the conclusion that the livestock pro.
ducers of the west, especially the cattle
men, need assistance in solving both
their production and marketing prob
lens.
The Union Stockyards now being con-
structed at Los Angeles, affording a
great western market for livestock, will
cooperate with other existing agencies
go extend this assistance
1t is up to the people of the cities
and to state authorities to aid livestock
producers because on the prosperity of
the livestock industry depends the food
supply of the people and the purchas-
ing power of the farmer. Without an
adequate purchasing power the rancher
cannot buy the output of the city fac
tories to fill his needs, and develop
ment of both city and country is re-
tarded.s
The establishing of Union StoAkyards
in Los Angeles, supplying for the pro-
Queer a daily cash market, is the first
and most essential step in procuring for
the producer fairer share of the con-
sumer's dollar.
About this centralized livestock mar
ket will revolve all the activities work
ing towar improvement and stabiliZing
of the livestock business. Great packing
industries will be established close by
to utilize without waste in either time
or materials, the output of our ranches
and ranges. The Union Stockyards will
be meeting place for producers of the
entire west, clearing house for all
livestock transactions, starting point
from which to set in motion all the
forces that can be brought into play
cost and sold at fairer prices.
Present marketing methods are no
longer satisfactory. Discrimination of
many kinds is the rule This is the fault
of nobody in particular but the result of
a timeworn system that operates against
the producer nine times out of ten and
that makes cattle raising, particularly
for the small man, a hazadrous occupa-
tion. The marketing hazards may be re-
moved to very large extent and pro-
duetion problems greatly simplified by
cooperation through the Union Stock
yards.
The Union Stockyarsd will furnish
daily cash market where buyer and
seller NAV meet on neutral ground and
where food animals are sold under com
petitive bidding from the greatest num-
Der Of buyers.
The packers of Los Angeles and Vern-
on have pledge themselves to cooperate
in every possible way to build up and
maintain a live stock market at the
Union stockyards which will truly re-
fleet the best possible values for all
kinds of food animals.
The Union Stockyards will make it
possible to develop the essential indus
try of feeding livestock that may be
shipped off the range unfit for slaught
er. Heretofore there has been no OPP
portunity to develop this business in
feeders because there has been no sure
source of supply for small numbers of
feeder animals and no certain market
for them when finished. When daily
cash market has been provided the small
farmer will feel secure in buying feed
ers, putting his feed into them for 90
days or so, and trucking or shipping
them back to the market to be dis
posed of as finished meat animals.
The packer wants only the tops and
under the present system whenever a
buyer has forced on him poorer lot
of animals the packer must feed them
out in his own corrals under expensive
and unsatisfactory conitions.
The market at Los Angeles will have
modern facilities for informing all pat
rons of the yards of the daily receipts
of livestock and the prevailing prices at
all other central markets and the Yards
agencies will be in a position to execute
orders for out-oftown buyers.
The operation of the market provides
for purchase and sale in an one of three
ways, namely:
I. BY the owner direct.
2. BY cooperative organizations.
3. BY other forms of selling agencies.