188 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BUYING FEEDSTUFFS. 



Mr. Drury: The matter of buying protein has got to l]e a 

 very serious question with cattle feeders in Iowa. I have never 

 fed any cottonseed, but have sold thousands of tons' of oil meal. 

 It seems to me the cattle feeders should make a united effort 

 through the association to buy this meal direct from the mill and 

 cut out the middlemen. There are too many middlemen living 

 off of us whom we don't need to support. I don't know whether 

 it can be bought direct from the mill.^ but I am anxious to get 

 some of the meal later on and am investigating that. 



Mr. Ritgers: I wrote to a mill company for a price, and got 

 it, and it wasn't two days before I got prices again, withdrawing 

 the old prices. I knew the dealer who had been handling that 

 grade of meal, and he had gotten in communication with the mill 

 and made them put on a dollar and quote me a new price. I 

 placed my order with another firm at $1.25 per ton less than I 

 had been quoted in the first place. 



President Sykes: I consider that an important question to 

 the feeders of Iowa, and if anything can be done along that line, 

 it certainly should be. We will now stand adjourned until 1:30 

 p. m. 



The secretary has made arrangements with several firms who 

 are wdlling to sell cottonseed meal in car lots direct to our mem- 

 bers'. Names will be furnished on application. 



Afternoon Session. 



President Sykes : We will listen to the report of the commit- 

 tee on the time to be given the railroad companies when ordering 

 double-deck cars for the shipment of sheep to Chicago or any 

 interstate point. Mr. Brockway is chairman of that committee. 



Mr. Brockway : We took this matter up and went into it quite 

 carefully. It is our opinion that from the market centers— Mis- 

 souri river markets, Chicago, St. Paul, Denver, etc. — these double- 

 deck cars should l)e furnished upon order, the same as any other 

 cars. For instance, if we went to Omaha today and wanted a 

 double-deck car, we should 1)e furnished it ; they should be kept 

 on hand at these jioints. For intermediate sbipments, they 



