Show 10 LK situ 1 9 J abc I 1 association SEL LINCe development of community shipping associations lei in the san joaquin valley of 0 california is expected to give impetus to the movement towards small scale live stock idock production throughout the western states oue one of 0 the largest operative cooperative co shipping associations has operated successfully cess fully for more than a year lei in a dairy section lei in california under auspices of the local farm bureau organization with the operation cooperation co of at the university of california extension service the market prices of cattle in the section where this community organization has operated have advance ed more than per hundred weight equivalent to 1000 a head on the average beet beef animal recently farm leaders from a dozen other i count counties les attended a demoli I 1 and learned just how low the organization functions small live stock feeders producers and dairymen make up a shipment from this county towards the close of each month each animal is hair branded to determine ownership upon arrival at lite stock yar yards ds three the ani animals nials are sorted and graded and sold to the highest bidder under broad competitive marketing each owner is given a complete account of 0 sale showing actual weights name ot of buyer price per pound and his probate share of the market ing and transportation expenses the farm arm bureau retains a n small amount tor for expenses in gathering and shipping the stock the effect I 1 of the community shipment Is th that at each cach owner even though he sells only one or two iwo itell animals mals Is aver gleveri the full benefits of 0 the open market just as though each man had shipped in an entire carload lei in the old days tile the smaller live stock producers were forced to rely cn entirely upon making sales to the country buyer or home town butcher at whatever price the buyer was willing to pay sales are ot of couse still made in the country both to live stock buyers and to local slaughter ers but the producer has the benefit to fo knowing what ills his stock Is worth on the central market so that it if the home buyer dose not offer all that the stock Is worth there remains the means of 0 realizing full market values through combining with neighbors and shipping to the stock yards agricultural leaders who long have realized the value ot of some live stock on every farm arm and ranch for or the benefit of maintaining soil fertility and to provide a profitable means of 0 diversification see in the successful operation of community shipping associations the means ot of encouraging the average fruit or grain farmei armer to go into the live stock business on a small scale it is generally felt that with the continued development of much of the western country along the line of 0 small farms that tho the future live stock producers are those who raise ral ao and teed feed live stock as a sideline in some of the community shipments arriving at the los angeles union stock yards there here are as many as 25 to 40 owners represented in a single carlot expenses of 0 such an organization aro are very slight as aalthe the local farm arm advisors zan c an generally brally handle most moat of the work which consists mainly of 0 advising producers erschen when a shipment Is to be made tha agent at the stock yard takes laksz tak sz earo care ot of all bookkeeping payment 6 of freight bills etc and renders a complete account i of the transaction this work is supervised by a representative of the united states department of agriculture whose choso duty is to protect the interests ot of hie producer |