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Two New Fieldmen For 



III. Livestock Marketing 



The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation recently employed two field 

 men to assist in organizing Illinois live- 

 stock growers and increase the volume 

 of livestock marketed co-operatively. 



Louis D. Hall who has been with the 

 cattle and sheep section of the Agri- 

 cultural Adjustment Administration be- 

 gan work March 13, and S. T. Simpson 

 who has been working in the western 

 states in the AAA on drouth relief will 

 begin work April 2. 



Mr. Hall was born on a Christian 

 county, Illinois, farm in 1878, is a gradu- 

 ate of the University of Illinois from 

 which he obtained a master's degree. He 

 was assistant chief in animal husbandry 

 at Urbana from 1903 to 1914 when he 

 went with the U. S. Department of 

 .Agriculture as a specialist in charge of 

 livestock marketing and meats. In 192fi 

 he served as executive secretary of the 

 National Better Beef Association. While 

 in college work and also with the U. S. 

 D. A., he wrote a large number of bul- 

 letins, articles and circulars on various 

 phases of livestock production and mar- 

 keting. He has had a rich experience 

 in this field and has addressed many 

 national organizations on livestock suli- 

 .iects. 



Mr. Simp.son has been connected with 

 the Federal Livestock Feed .Agency with 

 headquarters at Kansas City, and dur- 

 ing the past few months has been w^ork- 

 ing in 12 drouth stricken states. At one 

 time he managed the Producer Commis- 

 sion Association at St. Joe. Missouri, 

 and formerly was field man for the St. 

 Louis Producers. Mr. Simp.son has had 

 ideal experience to fit him for his work 

 in Illinois. 



Farmers National Grain 



Elevator Finance Plan 



Vaccinating While Young 



Final Corn-Hog Checks 



Are Being Distributed 



Disbursement of the third and final 

 installment of 1934 corn-hog benefit pay- 

 ments began the week of March 15 with 

 the distribution of 11,9.57 checks. Claude 

 Wickard, chief of the corn-hog section, re- 

 ported that the speed with which checks 

 can be sent to a county will depend upon 

 the receipt of certification of total ad- 

 ministrative expenses from the county 

 control association. "Benefit payment 

 checks cannot be issued until these ex- 

 pense certifications are received and 

 audited." he said. 



Benefit payments to signers of crop 



adjustment contracts had reached a total 

 of $690,728,712 up to March 7. Of this, 

 total disbursements to corn-hog signers 

 were 1216,783,913 and to wheat signers 

 $63,382,738. 



Under its new "Country t;ievator Fi- 

 nance Plan" Farmers National Grain 

 Corporation becomes a cash market for 

 more than 500 of its member elevator 

 associations. Purchases of grain by the 

 country elevator automatically become 

 sales to the National, and the hedging 

 facilities of the terminal markets are 

 brought to the door of the country eleva- 

 tor in their purchases of .50 and 100 

 bushel lots. Without this arrangement 

 the manager would be forced to go un- 

 hedged or speculate by selling more fu- 

 tures than he has cash grain on hand. 

 The plan makes possible the narrowing 

 of the margin between the door price 

 of grain and the spot terminal price, 

 according to the national grain co-op- 

 erative. 



The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As- 

 sociation handled during February 878,- 

 275 c.c. of serum and .39,270 c.c. of virus, 

 which is considerably more than the vol- 

 ume handled the same month last year. 



Reports indicate that more and more 

 farmers are vaccinating their pigs while 

 they are young to .save serum and vac- 

 cination expense. The substantial rise 

 in the hog market, it is believed, will 

 influence many more farmers to im- 

 munize their pigs this year than was 

 the case a year ago when hog prices' 

 were decidedly lower. 



Illinois has furnished more votes in 



congress on every important farm bill 

 since 1926 than any other state. 



The I. A. A. transportati*n division 

 recently secured a reduction in the 

 freight rate on butter from Olney to 

 Chicago amounting to one-eighth cent 

 per pound or |24 per car. A similar re- 

 duction expected in the rate from Car- 

 bondale to Chicago will amount to $28 

 per car. 



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APRIL, 1985 



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