ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IV. 1S1 



President Sykes: That is just what I asked the question for. 

 I asked Mr. Wallace if he knew whether or not the railroads were 

 adhering to the order of the commission on that particular matter, 

 and he said he didn't. The order of the commission specifically 

 states that they shall do this. 



Mr. Wallace : You have to give reasonable notice. I would not 

 want to say what that is, but you should make a demand on the 

 agent in writing and specify about the time that you would want 

 to ship. I should think that ten days to two weeks, if you could 

 give that, would put you on the safe side. It might need to be 

 greater in one case than in another, in order to enable them to get 

 the cars to you. 



A Member: I gave them thirty-six hours. 



Mr. Thorne: The question of reasonable notice takes in several 

 factors, and the commission itself was hedging on it. I believe the 

 courts and the commission would say that if a week was an ab- 

 surdly long time, considering the difficulties that you have to 

 meet, and if a week was reasonable considering the difficulties 

 that the railroad company had to meet, that would be reasonable. 



Mr. Wallace : But if you know that some time within the next 

 ten days or two weeks you will want to ship, it seems to me you 

 could protect yourselves, in a measure at least, by notifying the 

 agent, and then notify him of the exact date a little later. 



Mr. Thorne: Please don't misinterpret my statement. They 

 can not expect an unreasonable notice from you; it must be a 

 just and sensible requirement. The commission did intend that 

 you should have double-deck cars, and, considering all the fac- 

 tors in your business, you are entitled to them after what would 

 be a fair notice. Mr. Wallace's suggestion seems to be very prac- 

 tical. If you give the agent notice ten days or two weeks ahead 

 of about when you are going to want cars, and then give him a 

 thirty-six-hour definite notice later, I think that you would be 

 protecting your interests as well as the railroad's. 



Mr. Ames: I would like to bring up a question that has been 

 troubling the Iowa feeder. I want to know if there is any way 

 in which to make the local packers of the state of Iowa buy the 

 feeders' hogs? I don't believe there is a feeder in this state who 

 sells his hogs to a local packer, or that he could if he wanted to. 

 You can't sell your hogs to any packer in the state of Iowa, unless 

 it is Ryan. 



