540 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



MEDIUM CATTLE. 

 Total, 192,253. 



Iowa 96,253 50.1 



Illinois 49,550 25.8 



Missouri 23,514 12.2 



Others 22,936 11.9 



(29.5 per cent of steers; 9.2 per cent of total.) 



Packers 112,831 58.7 



Shippers and local butchers 50,237 26.1 



Others 29,185 15.2 



These three charts have to do with the receipts of three grades of 

 native steers at Chicago for the period of eight months from the first of 

 April up to the first of November. Of the "choice" total receipts, there 

 v/ere something over 92,000 head, and divided on the basis of whether 

 they weighed above or below 1,100 pounds. As to where those cattle 

 originated, Iowa furnished something over 42,000, or 45.9 per cent of the 

 total; Illinois furnished 34,614, or 37.6 per cent; Missouri, 5,780, or 6.3 

 per cent; Nebraska, 3,514, or 3.4 per cent; South Dakota, 1,940, or 2.1 

 per cent; Indiana, 2,830, or 3.1 per cent, and all other states, 1,469, or 1.6 

 per cent. 



Now of the total cattle supplies received in Chicago during the eight 

 months in this grade of steers, the packers bought 51,703 head, or 56.2 

 per cent of the total; shippers bought 34,926 head, or 37.9 per cent of the 

 total, and all others bought 5,418 head, or 5.9 per cent of the total. As 

 explained before, these figures are not exact, because the cattle bought 

 by the shippers are simply those that showed on the account of sales as 

 being for shippers — which we know to be shippers. Those bought under 

 the V\^ilson & Company name are all included under the packers, so that I 

 think that the division there should probably be about 52 or 53 per cent 

 bought by the packers, and 41 or 42 per cent bought by the shippers, and 

 the rest almost entirely bought by local butchers who buy from time to 

 time heavy and light grades of better beef. Small packers like the Illi- 

 nois Packing Company and the Chicago Packing Company, buy quite a 

 good deal of light-weight cattle for their Chicago trade. 



Member: May I ask a question here for a minute? 



Mr. Harlan: Yes, sir. 



Member: Of those cattle that were shipped, what per cent of them 

 were purchased by men not employed by the packers? 



Mr. Harlan: I have never been able to get the exact figures on that. 

 I tried to work that out from time to time to find out how much the 

 packers buy, and it is rather difficult, but I would say that of the cattle 

 shipped, perhaps 80 per cent are bought by the packers' shippers — that is, 

 by the United Dressed Beef and the New York Butchers, and a few by 

 Wilson under the name of Shoemaker, and by the Morris interests, and 

 the rest were bought by the independent shippers, like Egan, and some 

 are bought direct under the name of Dual Packing Company or the Pitts- 



