The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 18, 1918, Page 21

= { " Farmers Tell Facts Packers Would Hide (Continued from page 7) day or two Ilater, strange to re- late no ‘one. wants any of the stuff. They won’t look at it. He can’t get a bid. Sometimes he will get a bid, but it is away below what he was- offered at South St. Paul. One Minnesota farmer who had successfully eluded this told how he did it. He simply turned his stock over to some Chicago commission man, and this commission man told the beef trust buyers that those cat- tle came from Iowa, or Missouri or any old place, and that they belonged to- Mr. John Doe or Richard Roe. Meantime, Mr. Minnesota farmer, who owned them, had to stay out of sight and have nothing to do with his com- mission man WHERE ANY OF THE LIVESTOCK RING COULD SEE HIM. This farmer lost $500 on one shipment of four car loads, he said, because he failed to keep under cover and the Chicago buyers discovered that these were four carloads that South St. Paul commission men had “wired on” for punishment. They refused to take them except at a cut rate. FARMERS LOSE $7,000,000 IN ONE YEAR Minnesota and Dakota cattle are * superior to much of the highly praised corn fed stock of the Middle West, Craighead said, because being fed on harder grain they don’t shrink.so much, and more product is made from an equal live weight. Also, he said, Chicago prices are generally mate- rially higher than those in St. Paul, the St. Paul prices being shaved by a fairly accurate margin all the time, in addition to the difference in freight. He had calculated this loss to farmers on the basis of quotations at both places and found that for 1916 the total loss to farmers who had taken the lower St. Paul quota- tions amounted to over $7,072,000. The beef trust paid this much less for the cattle it bought at South St. Paul, than if they had been bought in Chicago. Based on average weights this came to a loss of $1.20 per head on hogs, $6 on cattle, $1.50 on calves, and $1 per head on sheep. Other farmer witnesses bore out these facts and told of discrimination against the shippers to the South St. Paul market, how buyers discrimin- ate against certain shippers, and how an independent buyer of cattle is often not able to get cattle he has contracted for if the buyer for Swift & Co. comes along afterward and wants them at the same price. In order to get cattle which he has bid - for and bought in good faith, a farm- er is compelled to pay 50 cents more than Swift’s bid, if Swift wants them, If he does this he gets them, accord- ing to the rules. 5 A commission man, who neverthe- less treats his farmer customers fair- ly and lets them have the cattle they have bought in spite of Swift’s wish- es, is punished by the other speculators and buyers in the “ring” by being un- able to get a bid on stock thereafter. POOREST COAL EVER BURNED _ Pekin, N. D. 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