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producers of this country really awakened and realized what the true 

 situation was, there could be but one answer to it, and I do not know of 

 any other body of men who can do more good to bring about fair and 

 democratic conditions in the live stock business and lielp to place it on a 

 sound basis than the live stock producers of the Corn Belt Meat Producers 

 Association. 



I was tremendously interested in your president's statement in regard 

 to the hog matter this morning. I want to say that the men in the west 

 with whom I come in contact, the people of Kansas and Nebraska, appre- 

 ciate fully the splendid work done by Mr. Sykes and the committee of 

 which he is a member. Not only that, but they feel that a series of 

 editorials published in Wallaces' Farmer, which put the Food Adminis- 

 tration right up against the real thing, after they were on the point of 

 repudiating their agreement, had more to do with the change of policy 

 on their part. They saw they couldn't dodge that responsibility to the 

 producer without exposing themselves to all kinds of criticism. I think 

 those editorials had more to do in bringing about a fairly satisfactory 

 hog price this winter than anything else. 



The President : For the benefit of the members of this asso- 

 ciation and the farmers in general, I would like to say, in connec- 

 tion with this legislation, when I was in Washington in October. 

 Senator Kendrick, through Senator Kenyon, invited me to go over 

 these bills and the entire proposition. We spent practically a half 

 day on the packer control of legislation from our dififerent view- 

 points, and endeavored to go into it c|tiite fully and thoroughly, 

 keeping in mind the report of the Federal Trade Commission all 

 the time, and I think we got pretty close together in our views. T 

 do not mean to say my views are your views, but I wish to make 

 that statement, that I thought we wouldn't go very far wrong if 

 we supported the Kendrick bill, as I think it is practically in line 

 with the things we most desire and ought to be enacted, and at 

 the same time it is right along the line of the recommendations 

 of the Federal Trade Commission. 



CO-OPERATIVE LIVE STOCK SHIPPING. 



By L. G. Foster, Iowa Agricultural College. 



The beginning of co-operative live stock shipping companies dates 

 back to the year 1908. Previous to this time, but little information has 

 been obtainable that would indicate any concerted action on the part of 

 the producer to ship less than carload lots of stock to market. In rare 

 cases a group of neighbors might make up a car. 



From the year 1912 there was a rapid increase of these companies in 

 the middle-west, in states where the farmer had less than carload lots to 



