35,000 Carloads in 1935 



This Is the Goal in Co-operative Livestock Shipments from 



Illinois This Year 



By Ray E. Miller 



NINETY Illinois counties are work- 

 ing together to increase coopera- 

 tive livestock shipments from 

 Illinois to a total of 35,000 carloads dur- 

 ing the calendar year of 1935. Last 

 year, total shipments from this state 

 to Producer agencies affiliated with 

 the National Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation amounted to 30,003 carloads, 

 or 23 per cent of the livestock produced 

 in and marketed from Illinois. Con- 

 verting the numbers of livestock into 

 standard decks or cars, there were ap- 

 proximately 40,000 carloads of cattle 

 marketed, 6,300 of calves, 6,900 of 

 sheep and 86,900 of hogs. 



In spite of the decrease in numbers 

 of livestock available for market in 

 1935, Farm Bureau livestock market- 

 ing committees in 90 counties have 

 put their shoulders to the wheel and 

 are aiming at an increase of approxi- 

 mately 5,000 cars. 



In practically every county, the pro- 

 gram is being carried out systemati- 

 cally. The livestock marketing com- 

 mittee appiointed by the County Farm 

 Bureau has adopted a specific pro- 

 gram. Many counties have enlarged 

 their committees to include smaller 

 township committees composed of rep- 

 resentative livestock men. Many coun- 

 ties have from 75 to 100 men actively 

 engaged in carrying out the program. 



Few people, even including livestock 

 farmers themselves, appreciate the 

 tremendous size and value of the live- 

 stock industry in Illinois Even fewer 

 appreciate the fact that a livestock 

 farmer's job is not done until the prod- 

 uct is marketed. According to the TJ. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, 23 per 

 cent of the total cash income of the 

 farmers of the United States is derived 

 from livestock. A considerably larger 

 percentage of the cash income of Illi- 

 nois farmers comes from livestock. Il- 

 linois farmers have set out to increase 

 the volume of livestock marketed coop- 

 eratively because they realize that the 

 cooperative way is the best way to im- 

 prove marketing conditions and regu- 

 late the kind and cost of the market- 

 ing service they receive. 



Volume of wool to be marketed co- 

 operatively in 1935 shows an increase 

 of 42.6% over 1934., Up to July thir- 



teenth, 325,332 pounds of wool had been 

 consigned to the Illinois Livestock 

 Marketing Association to be marketed 

 cooperatively. In 1934 cooperative 

 receipts were 228,000 pounds. 



All Illinois wool is being stored and 



graded at Indianapolis in cooperation 

 with the Indiana Wool Growers Asso- 

 ciation. After grading, it will be sold 

 by the National Wool Marketing Cor- 

 poration and shipped from Indianapolis 

 direct to the woolen mills where sold. 

 The National Wool Marketing Corpo- 

 ration represents 23 state or regional 

 associations. Last year, this nation- 

 wide cooperative handled approxi- 

 mately 65,000,000 pounds of wool rep- 

 resenting about 20 per cent of the 

 total domestic clip of the United States. 

 L. B. Hornbeck again served as field- 

 man for the Illinois Livestock Market- 

 ing Association in the wool marketing 

 program this year. Fifty-six Illinois 

 counties cooperated in the project. 



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h^arkfted TKru Pnoducer Agencies 



1932 - 23.341;"". 



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THERE'S NOTHING LIKE HAVING AN AIM IN LIFE SAYS RAY MILLER. HERE HE IS 

 telling the world what organized livestock growers and the 90 county committees expect to 

 accomplish this year. Let's all give 'em a hand and ship our livestock co-operatively. 



A continued upward trend in farm 



mortgage financing by banks, insurance 

 companies and other private creditors 

 is reported by the Farm Credit Adminis- 

 tration. The FCA is still doing the larg- 

 est part of current farm mortgage fi- 

 nancing having loaned about .M per cent 

 of the total of $320,000,000 advanced 

 during the first three months of 1935. 



Cutting alfalfa in early bloom insures 

 high feeding value, but may shorten the 

 life of the stand; conversely, late cut- 

 ting favors long life at the expense of 

 feeding value. , 



Uncle Ab says that you can some- 

 times tell the smartest man in the room 

 by the fact that he never says a word. 



About forty leaves are required to ma- 

 ture a good-sized apple. 



Your house organ has been perused by 

 this writer for a good many years, but I have 

 never seen an issue that held the interest for 

 me and for your other readers, I feel sure, 

 as did the ono (or July I93S. 



I especially like the two pages devoted to 

 Farm Bureau news In pictures. With so many 

 activities under way by the Farm Bureau of 

 Illinois it is small wonder that the Farm Bureau 

 members stay Interested and stay hitched. — 

 J. W. Cummins. Division of OrganizaMon and 

 Publicity, Farmers National Grain Corporation. 



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