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not let loose, nor could he hang on. Then on the way to Chicago 

 we had to carry sixty cars of dead freight, with twenty cars of 

 stock, and they never get in with them. How can a crew make a 

 note of each station on twenty cars? Blue Island is our terminal. 

 I have seen cars unloaded and put into the train at Sylvis. "Yes, 

 sir, your stock is on this train." You will sit there and sit, and 

 finally you ask the conductor what is the matter, and he says he 

 had to set some of this stock out. If you are fifteen minutes short, 

 that man is cut out. 



This thirty-six-hour law works less hardships on us men at the 

 point we want to unload them. They load them inside of the limit. 

 I have tried to find out w^hy it was, but nobody could tell me. 



Q. How far was that from Malcolm? 



Mr. Eisele : Twenty-two miles from Oskaloosa to Grinnell. 



Q. It cost you $42. 



Mr. Eisele : Yes, sir. I don't know whether they got any- 

 thing to eat or not. From Sylvia to Blue Island, we do not know 

 much of our stock ; we are not with it. I can not see why in the 

 world they don't put a coach on the train, or give us some kind 

 of an emigrant sleeper. The humane society ought to inspect 

 some of these railroads. I would be ashamed if they treated the 

 soldiers in France that way. 



The President : Before we proceed any further, Mr. Harris 

 suggests that he would like to have an expression from the con- 

 vention as to whether they approve or disapprove of the zone 

 system which is now applied to shipments of live stock. The first 

 zone extends out 250 miles from Chicago; the second to the 

 Missouri river. 



Mr. Cockerell : I move you that the Corn Belt Meat Pro- 

 ducers recommend continuing the zone system, or the five-day 

 market time, by the United States Railroad Administration. 



The motion was duly seconded. 



The President: Wouldn't it be wise to discuss the whole prop- 

 osition and then take a vote? 



Mr. Philips: I think this subject should be discussed. I have 

 a little something to say about it, but do not want to say that I 

 am opposed to it. 



Mr. Ames: Mr. Philips has spoken part of my piece. Mr. 

 Harris has given us a very intelligent idea of the marketing of our 



