Show local live stock shipping associations IT TT WAS barely seven in ida grove but around the union stock yards the daa days s work had started a whole two hours earlier it was shipping day for the local shipping association and farmers had been busy since five getting their hogs loaded into the empty car that stood on the siding the early morning freight would be due any minute now how many you shipping today frank tint tim gordon asked as he be and ills neighbor dr frank watson leaned bover the whitewashed white washed fence of the yards smoking as they watched the loading only had one more ready sent f three last week idea this operative cooperative co shipping association shipping them out one or tw ano 0 at a time just Rs as they fatten up bents beats the of having to wait until theres a whole carload ready 1 I like having hating our comm Nelon company down at the central market and frank knocked the ashes from his pipe it takes a lot of worry orr oft a fellows mind to know that there Is someone down there to look ionic after our sales someone that knows how to 10 lo do it other trucks drove up some with one hog and some with nith two each hog was avel weighed hed and listed then loaded with the rest into the waiting car the freight puffed in it puffed out again taking with it the producers car of hogs bogs and sam johnson who Is paid to look after the shipments until they are safely in the care of the producers commission association at tile the stock yards awaited their checks the farmers at ida grove stood along the siding and wat watched cled ed the freight pull out their part in the snipping was done all that was left for them to do was to indorse their check when it arrived this Is the operative cooperative co way of taking hogs to market twenty live five per cent of all the ahe stock sold on the terminal markets Is handled through operative cooperative co shipping associations four thousand farm communities have organized associations duplicates of the one at ida bag m for fifty years farmers have been experimenting with operative cooperative co shipping put hut up until not more than one carload in of the live stock of the nation traveled the operative cooperative co road to market today ga per cent of the live stock shipments at st paul are operative cooperative co cooperative co operative shipments at chicago total about 30 per cent balf or more of the hogs and 12 to 35 per cent of the c title cattle it Is estimated that operative cooperative co shipments make up 20 to 23 21 per cent of the stock on the rast east st louis and sioux city markets at kansas city S st t joseph and aninha the average Is around 15 per cent on tile buffalo market the sh share a re of operative cooperative co shipments increased from per cent in 1919 1019 to 20 3 per cent la iii 1921 1021 it was in 1872 that the orange grange started tile the first operative cooperative co live stock shipping movement in less than two years several hundred associations were in iowa missouri ne harld and Illinois these associations were generally mere shipping agencies they were nere distinctly grange movements ind and nhen tile the spirit if t the grange began to f P fade de the shipping association so movement died but it was born boorn again the next time it cropped out was down doun in tennessee in 1877 A group of sheep men around goodlettsville formed the ga goodlettsville e lamb club an agency which graded tind and pooled lambs and wool and sold gold at an auction if the bids were poor the products were shipped to tile the central market this organization was a success and it stall continues to operate the society of equity in the SOs the farmers alliance began organizing live stock shipping in kansas nebraska iowa bowa and when the alliance began dabbling in politics around aw its various commercial enterprises disappeared that was the end of the most of tile shipping associations until around 1001 do when tile the society of faulty began the work of organization during the foll following oling decade many as t Oe lations were ere started throughout the middle western states the equity Is 18 still at the good work six years ago tanners farmers all over the central west began organizing shipping associations by the dozens live stock price were rising and country buyerl aused to increase their prices adeep k 4 lie situa ran aln 1 9 t 0 up p their own alg ir the 1 i ullon started ini associations and then the yie farm bureaus got interested in tile lev ment cAment and they liun hun adf deeds ot units particularly in illinois loya 11 indiana ohio and minnesota laese are made up of 61 stock producers of a 1 C liff of several communities wio to 11 dues dueg and agree to altheir stock through tile the local Fornet something bing like tills flits A nanct er Is hired usually rine of 0 the of the neighborhood who aw tes the association as ana a side issue although in some of 0 tile the larger organizations he Is paid enough to devote ills his entla time to tile the work it is the managers job jet to assemble the live stock in carload lots for shipping into the die central market where the producers live stock commission company oversees the sales rates when a member has stock ready to sell he notifies the manager who orders a car for the proper date in many associations one day ot of each week Is shipping day and the farmers brin bring in their stock one or two or borr three animals at a time ahlie just ns as th they py are ready the common custom Is to mark each owners stock before it Is shipped the shipments are then sorted at the central market and each mans stock Is sold by itself and each is paid the actual amount ills his stock brings after the cst cost of transportation and handling h are a re subtracted acted each mans stock bears its pro rata share of the expense the national association before the Nat national lonal live stock producers producer association came into existence each cadi local association had a representative in the central market to oversee the hie sales of its stock this Is now the work of the new national live stock operative cooperative co asso association clation which Is scarcely more than two years old the local association can join the national t live lire stock producers association at a nominal fee usually of 50 for which the national association will oversee the sales of the local shipments many ot of these local associations arti are not incorporated othel s are but the most of thern them ore are simply voluntary organizations generally the groups are governed by a board of directors mho liae hao general charge of the business as well as the lilting hiring of tile the manager shipping once through gli the association does docs not obligate a farmer to make further shipments for there Is seldom a contract lie ile Is free to sell or ship in any other way he be likes Ilo however in the last few years many of the associations are becoming more strict they are incorporating they are adopting it a contract under which the producer agrees to sell only through the association for a certain numb number er of bears ears usually three they are buying office space and scales and are making a united effort toward permanence ma nia nence in spite of the loose slipshod organization of the past these operative cooperative co units most of them are making money mcney in some states the saving ranges between 20 and 75 cents per hundredweight with a general average of 35 cents the savin saving per car usually ranges from 43 4 i t to 0 75 it if the savings of all these thousands 0 of f associations ciati clat ions ons were added together it would ile be high in the millions million |