Show I Plant your garden now Buy seeds seed at Bailey Sons Co Wasatch I Adv I I 1 I J 1 t A Business Should be 1 as Big as its ts Job If bigness is is of benefit to the public it should be commended S The size of a business depends upon the needs which that 1 j business is called upon to serve A business should be as big bigas as its job You do not drive tacks with a pile driver or piles J with a tack hammer Swift Company's growth has been the natural and inevitable result of national and international needs scale Large production and distribution are necessary to convert the live stock of the West into meat and byproducts byproducts pro by ducts du ts and to distribute them over long long- distances t to the 4 consuming centers centers' of the East and abroad j jOnly Only an organization like that of Swift Com Company any with its many packing plants hundreds of distributing houses ho ses and thousands thou- thou thousands i sands of refrigerator cars would have been able to handle the i varying seasonal supplies of live stock and meet the present I Iwar war em supplying emergency y by by- supplying without interruption I First The First The U. U S. S soldiers a and d the Allies Allie in Europe by shipping as a. 4 mu much h as carloads carload of meat products s in ina a single week i II Second Secor The Second The cantonments in the United States j Third Third The The retailers upon whom the American public depends depend for its ita daily supply of meat I I But many people ask ask Do ask Do producers and consumers pay too much for the complex service rendered Everyone we believe concedes the efficiency of the Swift Company organization organization- in performing a big job in a big way at a minimum of expense J Swift S ift Company's total profit in 1917 was less than 4 J cents on each dollar of sales of meat mea and by byproducts Elimination Elimination Elimination Elim Elim- I of this profit would have had hd practically no effect on liv live stock and meat prices w Do you believe that this service can be rendered for less by any other conceivable method of organization or operation These questions and others are answered fully and Co frankly in the Swift Company 1918 Year YearBook YearBook Book sent free on request Address Swift Company U. U j. j S. S Yards Chicago c A sp- sp Swift Company U. U S. S A. A Local Branch So Third St. St West t Salt Lake City Utah I II I II I |