The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-05-29
HOW The FARMERS TN70T : l,e
LIVESTOCK COMM. ' On uo,.
BY CHARLES D. EGLEY
Manager, Farmers Union Live
stock Commission Co.

mission firm.
Stock is fed and watered before
1t Is sold and weighed. All of the
feed for this purpose is furnish.
ed by the same private company
VINO owns the stockyards. You
could not bring sacks of corn on
your back into the stockyards.
and feed your own hogs. You
have to buy it from them. And
they fix a price! Yes, they fix a
price on the farm products.
Don't tell me it can't be done
That is to fix a price on farm
products. You just come down
here to the stockyards, and ri
show you it is being done eVerv
DAY. Only the farmer doesn't do
IL. Inc other fellow does. The
answer is for the farmer to learn
the other fellows technique. 7
claim the power that enables the
other fellow to do that, is his own
ershlp of the means of production
and distribution, collectively used
The farmers can do the same THING
themselves take over the owner
snip OF this same thing, and run
1t themselves in their own behalf
comparatively.
WEIGHING
STOCK
And then comes the weighing
Here at South st. Paul it is done .
under the supervision of the State
Government. In fact, it is done bv |
me State Government. Thev hire |
the weigh-master. The theory ie |
hat by having it done in that |
Vay-the weigh-master as a re-
suit is being interested in neither
ne purchase or sale-it should no
weighed honestly.
All scales are equipped with
automatic registering beam, there
y eliminating practically every
nance of mistake. Certificates
re issued in triplicate. one going
o the buyer, the other to the sell
er, the other being kept bv the
tate for their permanent record
on can go to State Office, ard
lVestlgate old records, years af-
er the transactions have been
lade. 0"
ALE
The sellers statesmen or yard
en- (Which in all cases shouId be
le Farmers Union livestock
ommission) then the sale certi-
cate which shows the weight of
e animals and the price at which
ID, to the office, where the
'okkeepers do the accounting. ]
ley ngure out how much money !
e farmer has coming after de- ,
,ctlng marketing and transpC,.-
ton charges. They write
eek to the farmer for +be net
oceeds. VAC A'0' '
And now, who owns the Farm
Union Livestock Commission. !
nth st. Paul at the present time
is owned by three state organ al
'tlons affiliated with the Farm l..
educational and Cooperative in
non Of America, namely: Mon eli
IA North Dakota, Wisconsin ic,
so by the Minnesota Farmers re
1 ny m
lhere is a contract running be- in
cen these state divisions and +he pa
rmers Union Livestock Com vii
Sslon, a copy of which is on isl
? IN the office of your State ga
;reCary of the Farmers Union. We
the effect that the amount Of tn
nershlp that each state has in CHI
Farmers Union Livestock Com. tn
'slon depends upon the amount sp
business furnished to it bv ga
'or instance if one state fir rel
mes one-third of the business. tao
state would have one-third of to
votes at the annual meeting puI
contract further stipulates the
each state shall be entitled
membership on the Board OF on
ectors of the Farmers Union er
99stock Commission, South Ct Fee
z on the same basis. tee
.. 1t is my contention tail
!, mere number of livestock
aieo means little or nothing. =
not livestock we are IRVING 1
it's farmers. IT, not NEE
livestock that needs TO know IN
.; about economies and -
les. It's farmers. ''N tn
le only Importance of the live =
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