Show i o fie std o JAt i L Los Angeles March l Develop I-Develop- ment of community shipping asso- asso associations associations in the San Joaquin Valley of Cal California ornia is expected to give give im- im impetus im- im impetus petus to the movement towards small kale cale live stock production throughout fh the western states One of the larg lar- lar gl g t cO operative co-operative shipping associatIOn association tIOn has operated successfully for more than a year in a dairy section to In California alifornia C under auspices of the theal al farm bureau with lu operation co-operation of the University of r extension service The market arket prices of cattle in in the thes s s- s sion Ion where this community organ organ- 7 on haa ba operated have advanced no Ino p th i per hundred weight enu valent to 1000 a head On the o beef animal Recently farm de dc from a dozen other counties ah at nd l I a demonstration and learn learn- learned learned ed jus just how the organization t 11 Small live Jive stock feeders producers and dairymen make up a shipment from this county towards the close of each month Each Each animal i shair banded to determine ownership upon arrival at the thc stock yards There the animals are sorted and graded and sold to the highest bidder under broad com competitive tit e marketing Each owner is given a complete account of sale showing actual weights name of d buyer price per pound and his probate share of the marketing and transportation ses expenses The Thc farm bureau retains a small amount for expenses in gathering and shipping the stock The effect of the Community shipment is that each owner even though he sells only one or two animals is given the full justas benefits of the open market just as though each man had shipped in inan inan an entire carload In the old days the smaller live livestock livestock stock producers Were forced to en- en upon making sales to the coun- coun country try ry buyer or home town butcher at whatever price the buyer was w willing willingto to pay Sales are of course st still Jl made in the country both to live livestock livestock stock buyers and to local slaughter slaughter- slaughterers ers but the producer has the benefit of knowing what his stock is worth worthon worthon on the central market so that if the home buyer does not offer all that the stock is worth there remains the means of realizing full market values through combining with neighbors and shipping to the stock yards Agricultural leaders who long have realized the value of sonic some live livestock livestock stock on every farm and ranch for forthe forthe the benefit of maintaining soil fer- fer fertility fertility md and t a profitable means of diversification see in the successful operation of community shipping associations the means of encouraging ing the average fruit or grain farmer to go into the live Jive livestock stock business on a small scale It is generally felt that with the continued or of much of the western country along the tho line of small farms that the future live livestock livestock stock producers are re those who raise and feed live stock as a sideline In some of the community ship ship- shipments shipments ments anivin arriving at the Los Angeles Union Stock Yards there are as asman man many as 25 to 10 owners represented in a single carlot Expenses of such an organization are very slight as the local farm advisors advisor's office can generally handle most of the work which consists mainly of advising producers when a shipment is to be made The selling agent at the stock stockyards stockyards yards takes care of aU all bookkeeping payment of freight hills bills etc and renders a complete account of the transaction This work is super super- supervised supervised by a representative of the United States Department of Agriculture Agri- Agri Agriculture culture whose duty is to protect the I interests of the producer |