448 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Mr. Turner: I ordered four cars in December, and I am still 

 waiting for them. We get about two cars a week. But from 

 some stations around on the Great Western, they get five or six 

 cars at a time, and they are shipping them to smaller points. The 

 packers go out and buy hogs for a dollar less, and that is one of 

 the reasons we are shut out. 



Mr. Westover : Some time ago I had two cars of hogs delayed 

 on the track all night, and waited until noon the next day. I was 

 unable to move stuff for six weeks. In the meantime I got into 

 the local market at Cedar Rapids. I called up the superintendent 

 of the division at Manilla, to see if he couldn't get me a permit, but 

 he said he couldn't. He said the Chicago Hog Control Committee 

 had an embargo on. I tried to get hold of the Hog Control Com- 

 mittee, and found out they had gone out of business two weeks 

 before. I called Mr. Pickering, the superintendent of the Rock 

 Island lines. He said he couldn't do anything for me about get- 

 ting a permit to sell and ship to Chicago, but he could get a per- 

 mit to ship to Omaha. That is the proposition there. It is the 

 same way with stock cattle. I have had cattle unloaded at the 

 end of twenty-eight hours in Waterloo, twenty-five miles from 

 home, with feed bills of from $12 to $14. 



Mr. Corrie : Our complaint at Ida Grove is that we can't get 

 cars for Chicago at all so far as hogs are concerned, and we are 

 forced to take lower prices to Sioux City and Omaha. We have 

 been very lenient about this. We do not want to lose what we 

 have gained in all these years. 



Mr. Cold : We went to Selma, Iowa, and bought two carloads 

 of cattle, and loaded them about 3 or 4 o'clock, and they said they 

 would be in Eldon to take the first train to Cedar Rapids. We 

 went home in our car, expecting them to be there the next morn- 

 ing. They did not come that day, and they didn't come until the 

 next day at 4 o'clock. Before they got there, the agent told me 

 they had been unloaded and fed at Vinton. 



Mr. Ritger : There is just one objection I think of in that zone 

 system. There is a certain class of stock there is competition in 

 for eastern buyers. On certain days the buyers, I understand, for 

 New York, Philadelphia, BuiTalo or Baltimore, for a certain class 

 of stock, take advantage of us. On Monday and Wednesday, the 

 days under the old system, those buyers were strong competition 

 to the packers. By the zone system, the man who is unfortunate 



