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BUSES BROUGHT THEM ... 

 JoDaviess delegation arrives. 



have around 20 per cent of .ill open 

 market receipts. Hogs are fed shell 

 torn on arrival — about 3 to 4 bushels 

 to 60 head. If they clean that up they 

 get more. Corn comes high at the 

 yards - - SI. 7*) a bushel. That goes on 

 the shippers bill of sale. Market top- 

 pers are scarce this year. Dollar corn 

 means light feeding - - too many that 

 weigh around 160 to li5o lbs. After 

 the hogs are sold they are driven on the 

 scales maintained by the yards com- 

 pany. The weight is punched on the 

 ticket while the scales are in balance. 

 No chance for error with this arrange- 

 ment. 



Jo Daviess Count)' In 



The Jo Daviess County Farm Bureau 

 is in today with 125 stockmen led 

 by dry-witted Farm Adviser Hank 

 Brunnemeyer. Walter Howe guides the 

 party around. After a brief explana- 

 tion of the Producers set-up. the tour- 

 ists go out to the alleys to see the live- 

 stock. The salesmen have selected 'ex- 

 amples of all grades, canner cows, 

 butcher cows, prime steers, baloney 

 bulls, butcher hogs, rough packing 

 sows, stags, thin shoats, skips, choice 

 veal calves, throwouts, choice native 

 lambs, and others. 



We catch up with Henry Campbell, 

 manager of the hog department. How 

 did their guess of today's hog market 

 come out.' O.K. The 8:.^0 report 



TWO CAMPBELLS . . . 

 Henry, head hog saleiman, left, and J. S., 

 Federal market expert. 



WE GET OUR PICTURES "TOOK" 

 "125 JoDaviess Countyltes at end of tour." 



shows the market fully steady with 

 Wednesday's best time or strong to five 

 cents higher than Wednesday's average. 

 Later the market takes a turn for the 

 worse. Forty per cent of receipts were 

 directs. So the big packers sat back 

 and bid only $9. 2"^ for the same kinil 

 that brought S9.'iO to S9.6(l to small 

 killers. But there are not enough sm.ill 

 packers in the market to hold up the 

 price. So bulk of sales were lower. 

 The Producers salesmen contend that 

 direct buying of hogs tends to ilrive 

 prices down at the terminal markets 

 and enables them to buy for less in the 

 country. 



At the yards today you see thousands 

 of thin hogs. These pigs sell at a dis- 

 count. Campbell tells you it would be 

 profitable to buy corn even at current 

 prices and feed out thin hogs to butcher 

 weights. Fat hogs sell at a higher price 

 and then there's the extra weight. 



How are the cattle salesmen coming 

 out.' Bob Grieser discovers where the 

 extra 3,000 cattle above estimates came 

 from. Fifteen hundred were bought by 

 packers on other markets, about 1,600 

 are feeders. "So we decided to ask 

 steady prices," he says. Fat cattle are 

 steady with the $11.25 top of the day 

 before. Good and lower grades are 

 weak to 25 cents lower. Expertly, John 

 DeWitt singles out one cow after an- 

 other for the crowd. He tells you the 



BROADCASTER JIM CLARKE 

 "He radi'^s dally markets to 

 the country. ' 



price each will bring and why. Here s 

 a thin mildeyed Jersey. She is on the 

 bottom rung of the price ladder. Worth 

 only 3^2 "-'nts a lb. Ovtr there is a 

 plump, sleek red Shorthorn. She'll 

 bring ~ mits A packer buyer rides 

 by on Ins horse. DeWilt signals him 

 not to get away. He has the kind the 

 buyer, IS looking for j-'roviding he pays 

 the price. 



Market Opens at 8 



The market opens at S o'clock. Sell- 

 ing is practically over at 3:00. But 

 from 2 :00 on the Proikicers office is a 

 beehive. The clerical force is working 

 at top speed getting out the bills of 

 sale. Checks go to the country the 

 same day livestock is received and sold. 

 5100.000 of sales is an average day. 

 Over in the steel files there's a card for 

 every shipper in 25 states who has made 

 one or more shipments. His name and 

 address are carried permanently on ad- 

 dressograph plates for imprinting billv 

 of sale and record cards. No c hancc 

 for error with this system. 



Who buys the S^'iO.OOO to $1,000. 

 000 of livestock that changes hands 

 daily on the Union stockyards. Man- 

 ager Swan.son who keeps close tab on 

 all angles, of the business has the in- 

 formation handy on a card. Here's the 

 dope on cattle: big packers (Oct. 16) 

 bought 58.17 per cent, small packers 

 16.37. shippers (goes to eastern pack- 



CHECK WRITER W. A. COVERT 

 "No time to stop for a picture. Checks 

 go out same day." 



A CARD FOR EVERY SHIPPER 



"Margaret F. Lennon demonstrates 

 Producers' handy filing system." 



