456 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



rules and regulations made by the United States Railroad Administration, 

 and annul such as it may find unjustified under peace conditions. 



Resolved, That the Director General of Railroads be requested lo 

 immediately instruct the claim agents of the various carriers to promptly 

 adjust live stock loss and damage claims under the rules and customs 

 prevailing before the operation of the carriers was placed under govern- 

 ment control. 



Resolved, That we approve of governmental supervision and control 

 of the stock yards and of the commission men and traders in live stock at 

 the various central markets. These yards are in fact public utilities, just 

 as are the railroads, and should be subject to strict supervision. 



Resolved, That we commend the work of the Bureau of Markets in so 

 far as it has gone about disseminating statistics concerning the marketing 

 of live stock. Up to the present time, however, this information has not 

 been of such a character as to make It of any great value to live stock 

 producers except in an indirect way, and is not widely disseminated among 

 producers. We request the Bureau of Markets to digest these statistics 

 more completely, and to give thom wider circulation and in a more under- 

 standable form. We request, further, that it issue reports in which should 

 be given average prices and average receipts of hogs, cattle and sheep of 

 different grades day by day at the principal markets in the corn belt, said 

 prices to be furnished daily to all of the market and agricultural papers, 

 and a weekly summary also to be furnished to such papers and to the 

 various live stock organizations. 



Resolved, That the Bureau of Markets be requested immediately to 

 attack the problem of reducing the violence of the fluctuations in live 

 stock prices. It should make a study of the extent to which these fluctua- 

 tions are due to irregularities in supply and irregularities in demand, and 

 to manipulation or ignorant interference with established customs, and it 

 should study measures by which fluctuations due to these causes may 

 possibly be rendered less violent. We further request the Bureau of 

 Markets to give attention to the matter of developing a scientific grading 

 system of live stock, and especially of cattle. 



Resolved, That we commend the work done by the National Live 

 Stock Shippers' League, which has been supported by the members of this 

 and other live stock organizations. 



Resolved, That we are opposed to the change from standard time to 

 the "daylight saving plan," as the change of the working hours caused 

 great hardship and inconvenience to the farmers of Iowa. 



Resolved, That we condemn the PostoflEice Department for curtailing 

 the rural mail service in Iowa. And we demand the re-establishment of 

 routes to give us as good service as we formerly enjoyed. 



Resolved, That the substantial increase in the number of hogs mar- 

 keted during the present winter, and to be marketed during the next four 

 months, is due directly to the urgent appeals made by the government for 

 such increase, and to the definite promise made by the Food Administra- 

 tion that in so far as it could do so it would see to it that the hogs mar- 

 keted during this winter should sell per hundredweight for thirteen times 

 the value per bushel of the corn fed into them. Not only has there been 



