TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 657 



Mr. Stafford : That is absolutely true. 



Mr. Bray : However, in performing these duties the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture felt that it was its duty to the live stock pro- 

 ducers and shippers of this country to not play favorites what- 

 ever, which I am sure we haven't done, and not show any leniency 

 where we find that none was due. It was our duty, as I said be- 

 fore, to deal with all these cases without fear or favor, and I 

 believe that we have done that to the fullest extent. I also want 

 to emphasize the statement that I made a while ago, that we 

 have done all this with a view to avoiding any unjust injury to 

 any person who might come within the authority under which 

 we were acting. 



I suppose the time is short, but if there is any other question 

 I will be glad to answer it. 



Member : I would like to ask if the Bureau of Markets holds 

 the different stock yards companies responsible for the condition 

 under which the stock are handled by the stock yards companies? 



Mr. Bray: The Bureau of Markets exercises supervisory au- 

 thority over the stock yards companies and any irregular method 

 of handling stock which might result in injury, or which does 

 result in injury, would be dealt with accordingly, when it was 

 brought to our attention, either through investigation or com- 

 plaint. 



Member : I took up with Mr. Sykes in June a matter where I 

 went in with the shipment of stock and was put off at Bensen- 

 ville and my stock went on into the market. When I got around 

 to see the stock, somewhere around nine o'clock in the morning, 

 I found that some time during the night a double deck of hogs 

 was put into a small pen, I suppose by the stock yards company, 

 and there seems to have been no water in the pen, and as a con- 

 sequence there was a bunch of dead hogs that I thought resulted 

 from the carelessness of the stock yards company, and I had to 

 stand the loss. I wondered if this Bureau of Markets would take 

 cognizance of such a situation at the Chicago yards. 



Mr. Bray: The Bureau of Markets handles just such things 

 as that when they come to the attention of the supervisors who 

 cover the entire yards every day, and they take them up with the 

 stock yards company and correct them as far as possible. 



The Chairman: At this time you are permitted to go right 

 into the stock yards with your stock. If any train crew attempts 

 to put you off, you just don't get off, that's all. That order has 



