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Show .jS y Development of community shipping ship-ping associations in the San Joa-cpiin Joa-cpiin Valley of California is expected to give impetus to the movement towards to-wards small scale live stock production produc-tion throughout the western states. One of the largest cc-operative shipping ship-ping associations has operated successfully suc-cessfully for more than a year in a. dairy section in California, under auspices of the local farm bureau organization, or-ganization, with the co-operation of the University of California extension ervice. The market prices of cattle in the section where this community organization organi-zation has operated have advanced more than ?1.00 per hundredweight, equivalent to $10.00 a head on the average beef animal. Recently, farm leaders from a dozen other counties attended a demonstration and learned just how the organization organiza-tion functions. Squall iive 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 up-on arrival at the stock yards. .There the animals are sorted and graded and sold to the highest bidder under broad competitive marketing. Each owner is given a complete account of sale, showing actual weight, name of buyer, price per and shipping to the stock yards. Agricultural leaders, who long have realized the value of some live stock on every farm and ranch, for the benefit of maintaining soil fertility and to provide a profitable means of diversification, see in the successful operation of community shipping associations, as-sociations, the means of encouraging the average fruit or grain farmer 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 small farms, that the future live stock producers are those who raise and feed live stock as a sideline. In some of the community shipments ship-ments arriving at the Los Angeles Union Stock Yarrs, there are as many as 25 to 40 owners represented in a single carlol. Expenses of such an organization are very slight, as the local farm advisor's office can generally gener-ally handle most of the work, which consists mainly of advising producers when a shipment is to be made. The selling agent at the stock yards takes care of all bookkeeping, (payment of freight bills, etc., and renders a complete com-plete account of the transaction. This work is supervised by a representa tive of the United States Department of Agriculture whose duty is to pro-j pro-j tect the interests of the producer. pound and his probate share of the I marketing and transportation expenses. ex-penses. The fami bureau retains a small amount for expenses in gathering gather-ing and shipping the stock. The effect of the community shipment is that each owner, even though he sells only one or two animals, is given the full benefits of the open market Just as though each man had shipped in an entire carload. In the old days, the smaller live stock producers were forced to rely entirely upon making sales to the country buyer or home town butcher at whatever price the buyer was willing to pay. Sales are, of course, still made in the country, both to live stock buyers and to local slaughterers, slaughter-ers, but the producer has the benefit of knowing what his stock is worth - -on the central market so that it the -. -valine ouyer does not offer all that the stock is worth, there remains the means of realizing full market values through combining with neighbors |