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Show " livestock men ibyjew. plan AMERICAN FARM BUREAU CON-FERENCE CON-FERENCE HELD IN CHICAGO IS LARGELY ATTENDED Win Market Livestock on Cooperative Basis is Agreement Reached By Stockmen From Ail Sec-, tions of The Nation Chicago Fanners Thursday planned to market their own livestock on a cooperative co-operative basis. Every livestock producing section .vas represented in a conference which met here Thursday at the call of the tVme'riean Farm Bureau federation to ratify ji cooperative marketing plan Jrawu tip by the federation's committee commit-tee of fifteen. According to J. It. Howard, presi-lent presi-lent of the federation, the committee report includes: Provisions' to give the farmer something some-thing to say about the distribution of is stock. Plans for a farmer owned and controlled con-trolled livestock commission at the stockyards. Methods for orderly marketing of .ivestock so as to prevent gluts on the narket and consequent sharp declines n prices. "The farmers of the nation have de-:ermined de-:ermined to market their own livestock on a cooperative basis," said Howard. 'Our plan represents the natural out-jrowth out-jrowth of the cooperative livestock shipping association movement In merica." |