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in the Division of Accounts and Disbursements of the Department of 

 Agriculture, was ap]iointecl chief clerk of the new organization. 



For handling legal questions. Judge Bayard T. Hainer. a man of 

 mature years: a former Federal judge in the State of Oklahoma, who 

 had also been engaged for a considerable time in the active general 

 practice of tlie law, was selected as attorney. 



The work connected with the auditing of the books of the various 

 persons subject to the act and the study and analysis of their ac- 

 counting systems was placed under the direction of Arthur S. French, 

 a certified public accountant, who had had considerable experience 

 of responsible character in public accounting work in the Middle 

 West. 



The duties relating to the registration of market agencies and 

 dealers at the various public stockyards and the determination of 

 questions relating to the reasonableness of rates and charges were- 

 assigned to G. X. Dagger, specialist in live-stock marketing costs, 

 who had had considerable training along both economic and legal 

 lines and, having previously been engaged both in live-stock farming 

 and in State public activities, possessed highly desirable qualifica- 

 tions for this work. 



The questions of trade practices in the marketing of live stock be- 

 ing of the utmost importance, Howard M. Gore, of West Virginia, a 

 lifelong cattle and sheep raiser, who had been president of the Here- 

 ford Breeders' Association of West Virginia and a member of the 

 board of education of that State, and who had banking and other 

 interests which brought him a thorough kno\yledge of general busi- 

 ness methods, and who, in addition, had served as a producer on the 

 committee of fifteen of the American Farm Bureau Federation 

 in the consideration of plans for the cooperative marketing of live 

 stock, was selected to handle trade practices. 



Provision has been made also for the handling of certain economic 

 phases of the work of the Packers and Stockyards Administration, 

 under the immediate direction of Charles J. Brand, after July 1, 

 1922, as consulting specialist in marketing in the Department of 

 x\griculture. who established the Oflice of Markets, later the Bu- 

 reau of Markets, of the Department of Agriculture, and continued 

 with it until 1919, since which time he has been vice president and 

 general manager of a nation-wide commercial fruit and vegetable 

 marketing organization, in which capacity he has had unusual op- 

 portunitj^ to familiarize himself from a nongovernmental standpoint 

 with the commercial aspects of marketing and distribution questions. 



The work to be done in the various public stockyards throughout 

 the country necessitated the use of men who by training and experi- 

 ence were familiar with the practical phases of the marketing of 

 live stock through terminal markets, who should act as live stock 

 market supervisors and their assistants at the more important public 

 stockv'ards. On June 30 such men had been assigned to the stock- 

 yards at the following markets : 



Atlanta, Ga. Fort Worth, Tex. Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Buffalo, N. Y. Indianapolis, Ind. North Portland. Oreg. 



Chicago. 111. Kansas City, Mo. San Francisco, Calif. 



Cincinnati. Ohio. Nashville, Tenn. Sioux City, Iowa. 



Deliver, Colo. National Stock Yards, 111. South St. Paul, Minn. 



Detroit, Mich. New York. N. Y. 



El Paso, Tex. Omaha, Nebr. 



