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going to have a chance to put it across. So that it seems to me the 

 problem is pretty well disposed of. 



But that organization is not going to get the volume of business con- 

 tinually and without the cost of solicitation, and to be sure of what it is 

 going to have, to put it on a really successful basis, unless back in the 

 states there is a strongly developed, centrally developed, good service or- 

 ganization or shippers' federation tied into well-managed, standardized 

 local associations. That is what I mean when I don't see any reason 

 why we can not achieve the real results which co-operation can achieve 

 in the industry of live stock shipping. I can not see any reason why we 

 can not do it, but I feel perfectly sure that we won't do it unless v/e 

 proceed on substantially those lines. 



Either the shipping movement is going to go forward or it is going to 

 go back. It has to be able to take an aggressive forward step pretty 

 soon or it is not going to hold its own. It has got to show service and 

 show results. It can do it. It has a great foundation laid, but it must 

 be put, through the proper sort of support, in a position to go ahead and 

 build up those lines of service, and I think that the field is ripe for the 

 harvest. 



The President : The next speaker on the program is Mr. C. L. 

 Harlan, whom the Secretary of Agriculture has put in charge of 

 this statistical work, this live stock census work that I referred 

 to. So without any further remarks in the way of introduction 

 I am going to introduce to you Mr. Harlan at this time, who will 

 tell you of their plans and purposes in a short talk to you. 



ADDRESS BY C. L. HARLAN 



(Regional Director United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Agricultural Economics, of Chicago.) 



I am very pleased to appear before you today, who represent the live 

 stock business of the state of Iowa, and present to you briefly the work 

 that the Department of Agriculture is doing in this new work of live 

 stock estimates. 



As you possibly know, congress at the session of last spring, made 

 available to the Department of Agriculture an additional appropriation 

 for the use of what was formerly the Division of Crop Estimates, to carry 

 on similar work in the matter of live stock. This appropriation became 

 available the first of July of this year, and since that time the Depart- 

 ment has been engaged in trying to build up an organization to handle 

 this work. 



Before the work was undertaken, two conferences were held to take 

 up with producers of live stock, marketing agencies of all kinds, and 

 people who are interested in live stock marketing in any of its angles, 

 the question of the kind of work this new division should undertake, how 

 it should be undertaken, and what should be its general aims. 



The first of these conferences was in Chicago, and covered repre- 

 sentatives of the middle-west or corn belt, and the second was in Denver, 



