The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-10-22
To Patrons Redwood
Falls Shipping Assn

| Association I desire to inform YOU
that we will make regular shipments
of livestock commencing Tuesday.
October q, 1881.
We have $500 on hand that belongs
to you and we want to pass it back to
those who contributed to the earnings,
of the Association. We have been ship
ping your livestock at actual cost but
| our refund from the Central CO.
operative Association of South ST.
Paul has amounted to $1,073.13 for
| the last three years which accounts
for the balance on hand at present.
Due to the use of double deck cars,
we are able to make a substantial
saving over single decks, in some
cases as much as $4,000 on one car.
By shipping to Central Association
we pay smaller commission as their
charge is less than other commission
firms and we have had 80 per cent
refund on each years business as a
patronage dividend from them.
The following charges will be made
to those patrons who have shipped
with the association during the past
three years and whose shipments
contributed to building our surplus.
Cattle and veal calves ------50c cwt-
Sheep Actual cost
Hogs (home weight-no shrink)
| cwt.
Carload from one individual $500,
above actual cost.
Bring your stock well fed and wat
cred Don't over fill. Twenty-four
hours later the stock will be safe ON
the market and in the proper shape
to take another fill before being sold
and weighed. Again, don't over fill
the stock looks bad on the market and
does not sell as well. Our railroad
service has been 100 per cent during
the past three years and we rarely
hold hogs over in the local yards.
The loss in shipping livestock is
caused by dead animals and loss in.
weight, commonly known as shrink
age. In shipping hogs we did not
lost one animal the first year and in.
1881 just one hog.
tween the shrink caused in shipping
by rail against that made by truck.
shipment, we shipped five truck loads.
last month from the local yards to-
South ST. Paul by three local truck
haulers and found that we received
four and five pre- cent shrink on hogs
via truck and six per cent on cattle.
via truck. We never have over two
per cent shrink via rail so that ship
ping by truck causes shrink twice
as heavy as when shipped via rail-
North Redwood Association reports.
four per cent shrink on hogs shipped
by truck.
With the above experiences let's do,
little figuring: Suppose you ship
ped 20 hogs at 200 pounds making a
gross weight of 1000 pounds. Using:
the truck shrink or per cent makes
160 pounds OF pork, at present price
about SIS cwt. or an So loss and if
hogs were $40 cwt. the loss would be.
SIC. Taking the Associations max
imum shrink 2 per cent and many
many shipments are made without
any shrink) the loss would be so
Lounos or pork at present prices So
cwt. or loss of 81 and with $40
hcgs loss OF SIS compared with re-
spect.ve truck losses of So and SIG or
saving of from 81 to So on twenty
hogs shipped via rail.
Unless you actually weigh your
hogs at home before shipping by
truck you have no way of knowing
how large your shrink is and therein
is the oig advantage u sn.pplne
through your local Shipping Associa-
ton, as you have your home weight.
before you leave the yaros.
In bad weather we paper and bed
all cars and it is far better for hogs.
to lie in the car until a. M than in.
cold wet yards at South St. Paul.
Eacn deck shipment is Kept separate
~ and we know in which, SAFE your
hogs are sold. We will brand your
hogs and they will be sold separately
f you desire.
A government report shows that as
ar as marketing on any special day
It the week there is only variation
II traction of one per cent.
Some people say that Central As
ociation is too large to handle their
took properly but have never heard
t any other commission firm or any
Their business that was too large. 1
ont know how they handle their
rucked in stock but / do know how
hey handle shipments received by rail
nd never saw livestock handled
etter in any yards than they handle
he CARROTS in South st. Paul. Some
the largest shippers in our COM
unity ship to Central exclusively.
In order to run Shipping Associa-
on successfully we must have, on
tipping day, a minimum of one car
ad OF livestock for we cannot hold
ock over in the local yards without
sing money / have reduced nv,
commission from seven TO
re cents per cwt. which is enough in
csc times of low prices and ,fepres-
IN
We want your !. stock-we cont
mt your money and neither does