532 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 



Q. You have your full share of the order buyers' business? 



A. I think I am safe in saying that we probably get more hog 

 orders — I think we get about one-third to one-half of all of the 

 order buying on the market. That came with the class of sales- 

 men that we have, 



Q. You have some competitive men there — speculators? There 

 is a good deal of your stuff that comes to St. Paul that is forwarded 

 to other markets. Can you sell to those people? 



A. On other markets? 



Q. Yes. 



A. To the fellows that ship out? 



Q. Yes. 



A. I want to say this, that we decided when we started that 

 we could just as well ship our stuff to other markets as to some guy 

 that buys and ships them himself. We ship some cattle, now and 

 then, to Chicago, but we can just as well ship those cattle to other 

 markets as other fellows. The little commission firm can not ship 

 stuff itself, it can not shape up a load of any one kind to ship, 

 but we are getting from 150 and up carloads of live, stock a day, 

 and we can fit up a carload of bulls, for instance. \\t can fit up a 

 farmer feeder with 750-pound medium class steers, because we have 

 got the volume. We can fit up a carload of feeder pigs, because 

 we have got the volume. It is just as I said before, we have on 

 many days got from 4,000 to 7,000 head of hogs a day. 



Q. Your volume of trade is very well distributed over the six 

 days of the week, or how? 



A. That is a question of orderly marketing. I think that the 

 farmers can regulate the market when they get well organized. 

 We don't yet get a uniform flow. We are now negotiating with 

 the railroads to change the special stock trains thru our association, 

 to get a more uniform flow thruout the week. 



Q. I would like to ask one more question : Thru operations 

 with the buyers of Swift and Armour, what time of the day do they 

 come around to buy? 



A. I think if you will come up there tomorrow morning, you 

 will find Swift's calf buyer in our alleys the very first, because we 

 save 600, 700 or 800 calves. I think you will see that their she- 

 stuff buyer is first in our alleys. Their steer buyer usually comes 

 in not later than nine o'clock or earlier than eight o'clock. 



Q. I have been bidding on that market for about twenty years 



