TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 643 



Member: What is the basis of overloading? 



Mr. Coon : Well, take a 36-foot car, I wouldn't say exactly, 

 but I think it is 17,000 or 18,000 pounds on hogs. If you over- 

 load a car, do this thing — be sure to state the actual loading 

 weight on the live stock contract. If you do that, you can get 

 the railroad then. It is the same way with grain. During this 

 car shortage a number of shippers have overloaded their cars a 

 great deal, and I have advised them to overload their cars all 

 they want to, and then put it on the bill of lading; but if you 

 overload the car and they don't have notice of it, they are not 

 liable in case of loss ; but if you overload and state the full load- 

 ing weight, if you overload it with live stock or grain, or any- 

 thing else, put it on the contract, and then they have got notice 

 of it and they cannot raise any objection if claim is filed. 



The Chairman : Now, gentlemen, I think we will have to 

 close this discussion at this time, as we have a number of people 

 we want to hear from. 



We have with us, as the most of you know, a number of men 

 who represent various of our interests. W^e have Mr. Park, who 

 represents the Chicago Live Stock Exchange ; Mr. Stryker, who 

 represents the Omaha Live Stock Exchange. These men are 

 both men who are practical business men in the claim business, 

 and I might say that Mr. Stryker has been handling the claim 

 department at Omaha for years. While Mr. Park has only been 

 at the Chicago exchange for a little less than a year, he has also 

 been affiliated with another big concern prior to that time in the 

 claim department. 



Now, what I started out to say was, these men are going to 

 be presented to you later on — we don't know just when. The 

 way our program is arranged, because some of these gentlemen 

 want to get away at noon, some of these gentlemen can stay over, 

 they informed me, and the probabilities are they will talk to you 

 right after the noon hour. 



Without further explanation I will introduce to you Mr. 

 Stephen Bray, of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 who will speak to you on "Work of the Bureau of Markets." 



FEDERAL SUPERVISION OF LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 



By Stephen Bray, United States Bureau of Markets, Washington, D. C. 

 The worlc of stoclc yards supervision is one of the public activities 

 which is being conducted under the emergency wartime legislation known 

 as the Food Control Act. This act was approved August 10, 1917, and was 



