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which will run it about 4,000 greater than any prexious month 

 since the establishment of the yards. The country' is so full of 

 hogs that the eastern buyer is not buying many hogs in Chicago, 

 because he can get about all the hogs he wants in Detroit, Indian- 

 apolis and other points. The south has doubled its production in 

 the past year. Only three weeks ago Jacksonville, Fla., shipped 

 sixty carloads to Fort Worth, Texas. The freight rate was $210 

 a car. 



There is another side to the story. I am inclined to disbelieve 

 that the packers are shipping many hogs from Sioux City to Chi- 

 cago. Those hogs come from Fort Worth as a rule. New Orleans 

 has quite a market, only recently owned and built by Morris & 

 Company. They never had a hog market there in thirty or forty 

 years. That is also true of Jacksonville and Louisville and Nash- 

 ville. They built up good, big stock yards, and I can truthfully 

 say that Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the east, including 

 Boston, are going into those markets and buying and shipping for 

 slaughter in the east. The Swift family has seven plants. They 

 are not bu3nng as heavily in the concentrated ])oints ; they can 

 go south and get hogs. 



Now as to some of the other complaints, wouldn't it be a short 

 way to take them up with your association and let it report to the 

 government? We would like to know the facts, so that we can 

 send a man there to act on it. Be sure you get the right dope. 

 We want to be frank and fair with you. You should be just as 

 fair with us. 



As to transportation, I have sat on the committee for live 

 months, as to whether you should have transportation or 

 shouldn't have it. I know you are placed in a very embarrassing 

 position. Your neighbor or some good friend comes along and 

 says : John, I would like to go to Chicago. We consider him an 

 unnecessary attendant. We have left the gate open. I am going 

 to say this to you, if that is not stopped you are going to lose 

 your transportation. The government is right. I don't mind say- 

 ing that I am one of four who voted for your transportation, and 

 every one of the others against it. 



You are on dangerous ground. How long it will last, I don't 

 know. It depends upon your action. I know it is necessary for 

 live stock to be accompanied. But the railroads and the most of 

 the operating people have got it into their heads that the average 



