Show the th e livestock situation BY L A Mc Me MAUGHTON NAUGHTON lot angain april 4 the stock ling ina a constitutional right to oli tho lio price irico ho 10 wi can 1014 sibly pet gel for what lio lie linn has to sell 1110 lie limit continue to to iRs cirt eliat right in efforts to KO give tin the tit ill lower prices than now pi MI dl hi tile thu mont meat dealer find tile the packer fire in ili alio position of buy bily in 1119 1 heir foot food supplies ns its low lov n as and that Is 19 their flontis right tile fact of the matter 1 Is 14 4 milt lint the pro prod diner ticer und mil merchandiser diser 1110 on oil different sides of 11 0 fence in establishing values tho retail anent dealer Is faced with it 11 problem these days lit in mer anent ho liny hns had ext exil evil t reineld low prices for n I 1 long 0 aig period of thin prices so low tha I 1 the prot pro liner vor was is supplying tile 1 public bublic with nt lit it a tor terrific rifle loss lois no industry could i long ions withstand it rd period of a product lind to bo be sold at a loss tile arv bent blihor price scale Is tit alio direct result of ruinously low price gentled to greatly cut down production pro luction nature tooka took a hand lit in tin the koine with last years drought I 1 V itil ill g it f fwd ve I 1 c 0 s t mid mi an extreme shortage of fitl fads tho producer last year stir clumped onto tho lilt markets find gli govern LIlt it 11 bulge huyo volume of oc an finals j thi alint I 1 t wo r 0 s sold of 1 I a nt t iriny tho alio producer pio ducer must not find cannot lifford to soil sell lils ills livestock at ony price except the highest tile tho market will afford tho the fact that lit lie it I 1 milking it 11 profit today merely menus that tio lie la Is regaining in part lih losses loa avs during previous years yeara mid it if tile producer la is to continue to remain lit in business lio lie must fiust now tahe full advantage of 1114 hl i opportunity to realize profits lust list tit nt this time tile titan who has livestock to sell ta Is being turied to sell hla his Il to tho the buyer now ns as always tile tile stockman must bear lit in mind that there Is only one reason why the alio packer backur would attempt to buy livestock ut tit tho the ranch instead of oil the public the answer Is that flint tile tho packer la Is attempting to liny buy nt at lower prices than lit lie would tic lie forced to pay iny under 1 tile highly competitive conditions that prevail on oil tile alie open central market it 11 0 ashby associate chief lit in Hv lly stock estock university of illinois states ill in law view of tit tho great i reduction in numbers of live I 1 it Is dear clear that there will bo be a marked reduction lit in 1935 tr of ineat animals and in fit meat wo we have more packing tig plant capacity than will vill bo be needed Iloe oled this year but no onu one call say that curtain certain plants planta should close however Ilo wever there la Is a practical way to solve the problem 1 and it a one under misting existing coll conditions 1 I I 1 ti fills it appears but sound bulj jess procedure to see ico that all anlin als marketed this year move through open ope 11 competitive markets where nil all packers havo equal ind and ready opportunity to bid on oil find buy them that Is tile tho first thing stockmen stoc kmen need liml to do this lila year contribute to improvement lit in ineat meeting ehli second problem pr on oil the live ll rostock aach produce ra old bide it iq in now IV a plain case of bargaining power suddenly wo we find ourselves in it sellers market though utility ninny stock sto kinon nion do not realize zo lt it us its by the hundreds of auls of dollars lost by stockmen stoc kmen kinen lit in went recent weeks by selling livestock lit fit less than dim 0 i market values if will see that all of their livestock move through open e for this year will adopt oven it sem semblance blanco of lit in their soiling selling obern allows and terminal markets aro are tit alio only ones affording any coordination Ili of sales effort they can baij obtain full benefit from the now new situation lilt kut if they permit their 11 livestock to bo be diverted from frondi or to bo be intercepted before it alion markets thoy they will recelle rc alvy loss less la Is now dow theirs for talo taking hiking two trends fire struggling for control in ili the livestock marketing field these are 1 retention ot of open anil and de 10 of more effective bargaining power lit in arriving tit nt live stock or 2 allowing mar luar bethig to become cm life tely with no lie effective bargaining iwler left to the lit producers of livestock shiell will c dlO 11 00 OSO se 1 |