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sion men an average of $30 per thousand. The feed charges in 

 the east are very much higher per car and per hundred than in the 

 west, due, of course, to the higher prices paid at these points. 



It occurs to me that now is a very great and opportune time 

 for the shippers of Iowa, as well as of the entire west, to press 

 their demands upon the carriers for better service, more uniform, 

 with a greater degree of regularity. I know you have gone thru 

 some very trying times without complaining and without finding 

 faults, and Air. Thorne, in his remarks this morning, has told you 

 a great many things in which I agree, and I fully believe that now 

 is the time for co-operation. The shippers, the railroads, the stock 

 yards, should all co-operate together ; we should be partners. I 

 think I might go one step farther, and include the packers, be- 

 cause one without the other can not exist. If you couldn't find 

 a market for your live stock, you wouldn't be in the business very 

 long. If the packer couldn't find live stock to buy and slaughter, 

 he would have to go out of business ; and that is also true of the 

 stock yards. 



It is safe to say that the number of increase of heads of live 

 stock moved by the railroads in the United States in 1918 was 

 over 7,000,000 more than in 1917, and I am inclined to think this 

 year will still show an increase over 1918. If that is true, we 

 realize where the stock is twenty-four hours ofif the market longer 

 than it should be, that your natural shrink of the hog will run 

 from three to four pounds, and on cattle from fifteen to twenty- 

 five pounds, and on sheep it will run about three pounds. There- 

 fore, if you will figure the total per head shipped and the great 

 omount of shrink that follows the lengthened schedules, you can 

 well afford to pay almost a double freight rate. 



The President: Before we open this public hearing to the 

 house, I am going to ask Mr. Wallace, who has secured a number 

 of reports from shippers and farmers over the country, to at this 

 time make a statement and present some of these reports to Mr. 

 Harris and the convention. 



Mr. Wallace : I want to say to you, Mr. Harris, an behalf of 

 our people gathered here, we are grateful to you and very appre- 

 ciative of the fact that you have come out here. Now that you are 

 here, we want to make you understand, and thru you the people 

 you represent, how grievously we are injured by what we feel is 

 negligence on the part of the carriers. 



