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Here Is Latest Outlook 

 Report on Hogs For 1935 



Expansion of Production Seems Certain Next Fall 



REDUCED herds, smaller storajre 

 stocks, last year's drought, this 

 year's promise of plenty, hiRh- 

 priced feed, low consumer buyinfi powei-, 

 reduced exports, the high price of corn, 

 all combine to produce an economic 

 hodge-podffe in the "pork business" that 

 has caused not a few over-the-fence de- 

 bates on what the future holds. 



Making sense out of all these para- 

 doxical factors, prophesying an expan- 

 sion of hog production starting this fall, 

 and hoping for a corresponding increase 

 in consumer buying power, a recently is- 

 sued anal.vsis by C. A. Burmeistir. Divi- 

 sion of Livestock, Meats and Wnol of the 

 United States Department of .Agricul- 

 ture, states in part. "In general, condi- 

 tions indicate that this spring marked 

 the low point in the present hog produc- 

 tion cycle and that an increase in pro- 

 duction will ft)llow during the fall nf \'X','> 

 and throughout next .vear." 



The article goes on to say. "Market- 

 ing of hogs since last December has been 

 the smallest for any corresponding pe- 

 riod since llUO. wl.ich was the year of 

 record small supplies. Slaughter und< i- 

 federal inspection in each month from 

 January to May inclusive this year has 

 been far under the corresponding months 

 of last year and not greatly different 

 than the 1910 figures. The January to 

 April total was riC percent le.ss than in 

 the same mi>nths last year and that of 

 .May showed a decrease of nearl.v .50 pel 

 cent. Slaughter iluring the remainder 

 of l;>;{.') is likely to be not much more 

 than half as large as in the same months 

 of 1<);54." 



Drought, the adjustment program an<l 

 low feed supplies contributed to the 2!< 

 percent decrease in the l!i:U spring pig 

 crop and the 4S percent decrease in the 

 l;*-!4 fall pig crop. Add to this the very 

 unfavorable relationship between hog 

 prices and corn prices which prevailed in 

 late id;?:? and. all through l'.i:!4 and the 

 answer i« found to hog reduction away 

 over and above the requirements of the 

 AA.\. These same factors also operated 

 to reduce the 1 '.•:{.") spring pig crop 17 per 

 cent lower than last spring. The re- 

 duced pig crop of this sjn-ing will be 

 marketed next fall and winter, hence 

 the slaughter during that period will be 

 smaller, Burmeister's article states. With 

 smaller numbers of hogs to be fattened 

 and indications of a plentiful feed sup- 

 P'.v. producers will feed their hogs longer 



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and make them heavier than avei; g.'. 

 This will result in dela.ved marketitig 

 and reduce still more the slaughter in 

 early fall. 



While- prices have remained reasonably 

 firm, the chief barrier to further price 

 advances is the relatively low buying 

 power of pork consumers. With hog 

 supplies at current levels and consunicr 

 income near the l!i2f)-2!i levels, the prices 

 of hog products would be very much 

 higher than at present. But with con- 

 sumer income greatly reduced, consump- 

 tion of pork cannot l>e expected to in- 

 crease. A substantial improvement in 

 consumer liuying power within the nex< 

 year will be reflected in a stronger de- 

 mand for hog products. 



.A more favorable factor toward fur- 

 ther advam-emont in hog prii'es is the 

 relatively small supply of hog product^ 

 in storage. The smallest on reconi for 

 .May 1 since storage holdings were first 

 reported in I'.Uii. they were 14 percent 

 smaller than a year ago and 2-! per- 

 cent smaller than the five year a\erage 

 for that date. 



Total net exports of pork in the seveti 

 month period beginning with last Octo- 

 ber were 24 percent less than in the 

 corresponding iieriod a year earlier and 

 .!') percetit smaller than the five .vear 

 average for the period. Lard shipment> 

 abroad were >>i percent smaller than .i 

 year earlier an<l ti'l percent below tin- 

 five year average for the period. 



Illinois 4-H Club ~ 



Members Win Honors 



The outstanding records made in buys 

 and gills 4-H club work brought r.- 

 wards to Helen Harrison, McHenry coun- 

 ty; Rita Mae Fiidey, (Jreene county: 

 Ralph .McKenzie. De Kalb county and 

 (Jeorge .Strout. La Salle county. The> 

 were chosen to In- the Illinois delegate- 

 to the National 4-H club camp which wa> 

 held in Washington. I). ('. June I.'! to 1'.'. 

 These two boys and girls were the pick 

 of 2r>,0()0 who are carrying on definite 

 4-H pro.iects in better farming and home- 

 making practices under the dire\;tion r)f 

 the College of .Airriculture of the I'lii- 

 versity of Illinois and their county rann 

 and home advi.ser.;. 



At the national camp the four Illini.i- 

 delegates joined with scores of trip win 

 ners from other states in a round of in- 

 struction, sightseeing and entertainment. 



With Our County 

 Farm Bureau Presidents 



E E STEVENSIN 



WHEN .vou speak of old timers 

 in point of service in the Farm 

 Bureau movement in Illinois, 

 one of the first men you think of is 

 E. E. Stes'cnson. president of the La- 

 Salle County Farm Bureau 



Mr. Steven.son 

 has held office 

 as head of one 

 of the largest 

 County F a r n) 

 Bureaus in th • 

 state for the 

 past 13 years. 

 He joint"d the 

 Far m Bur<'au 

 when it was or- 

 ganized in 1!U4 

 iind sor\'ed in 

 t h !■ l)eginnins 

 its township 

 chairman. He 

 has been a 



member of the Illinois Afiricultiir;d 

 A.ssoci;tti'>n since its oigarti/..it on. Yoti 

 will find him al every important 

 mfftine btMistiim and pushing for 

 '■very worh while state and Ci>otit\ 

 Farm Biinau proiect. 



Mr. Stevenson lives on his own 200 

 ;icre erain. livestoclc anrl da ry farm 

 near Ran.s.im, althoutih his sun J V 

 a F.!iin Bureau I'.'ader in his own 

 ligli'. ably op'rates it. H>' w:is born 

 in ISfi.'J. within a half mil ' of v.'her'' 

 he n»w r'-sidis Hi.- Ii-adershiij in th' 

 co-operative field began way back 

 at 'be turn of tb<' cenlurv when he 

 and his neighbor- oreani/ed the faim- 

 iTs' e'evator at R.insonv It was (wtlv 

 Hup to his intliiencc that this eli- 

 vator. handling from 40n,00rt to .''.00 W11 

 bushel- of [*rairi in a normal season. 

 >'.is fir>;t odiciallv to join the Illinf>is 

 Gr.tin Coii5ora(ion. • 



.Another co-opi-ratjve venture in 

 whi'-h he has been interested fcii- 

 noarlv 4" vears s th" .Allen and Ott>r 

 Creek Townships Mutual Fire In- 

 surance C'"ni>;inv which he s'Tved as 

 secretary He has been .secretary f>f 

 the Ransom elevator for manv v».ir- 

 ;inH is a m»'mb<'r of the bo-ird of di- 

 rectors of Illinois Grain C'Mporation 

 ind Illinois Far- .Supnlv Cimnanv 



Mr. and Mis Si<"'i-ns<.n hav twi 

 'hildren. both of whom am married 

 .As a youth h" att'ridf 1 the normal 

 school locate<l th.ti it Oen«>s»'o H" is 

 a charter stofkholHcr in Illinois A«- 

 ricnltiir.Tl H'>IH .in Cimnmv and sun- 

 n >rti'd the launcbine of the I A .A 

 life insiirancn D-occt with a gen-'rous 

 -t.w-k subsrriptinn. M' . Stevenson is 

 a tirni b'-li'>vei im 1-H club work H ■ 

 and h's son are 1(10 (xt cr-nt co-opei - 

 ators. The cream from th-ir Guernsc\ 

 h'-rd goes to the Farni'-rs Cieam-Tv 

 Company at Bloominslon. and th.'v 

 niToni/e all of th.- s-rviccs csiah- 

 lish'>d by the I .A .A ami Count> 

 Farm Bureaus. 



Farm Bureau members who ha\e used 



the petrolium -crvues of our memln'r 

 companies in the last two years have 

 received an average Patronage Divi- 

 dend amounting to $:!;•."'•'>. 



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