Peoria— W. T. Schwenk $17.70, Charles 

 Holmes $15.32. 



Woodford — Forest Lemons $48.63, C. 

 M. Smith $42.43. 



Mason— M. L. Yontz $36.63, Ned Yontz 

 $19.51. 



Marshall-Putnam— Chris Olson $16.01, 

 John Loomis $10.58. 



Logan— Geo. Gilchrist $12.96. 



While commission refunds are highly 

 appreciated, livestock farmers realize 

 that the big objective in organized pro- 

 duction and marketing is to secure and 

 maintain parity prices for livestock. The 

 corn-hog control program, the effect of 

 which was greatly intensified by the 

 drouth, proves the possibilities and need 

 for adjusting supply to effective de- 

 mand. The elimination of surplus live- 

 stock during the past two years, like- 

 wise, has shown the possibilities in im- 

 proving the bargaining position of 

 farmer-owned co-operative agencies. 



Everywhere in Illinois, livestock 

 growers are studying and discussing 

 fast-changing methods in marketing. 

 Only a few years ago practically all live- 

 stock went to market by rail, much of 

 it through cooperative shipping associ- 

 ations. Today the shipping association is 

 a thing of the past in many counties due 

 to the tremendous growth of trucking 

 direct from farm to terminal markets. 



Buying of livestock in the country by 

 packers and their representatives, like- 

 wise, has changed the picture. Co-opera- 

 tive concentration points which sell and 

 ship direct to Dickers and to the eastern 

 markets have been set up not only in 

 Illinois but also in other middle west 

 states to improve the farmer's bargain- 

 ing position. 



At Mattoon in Coles county, a new ex- 

 periment in co-operative marketing is be- 

 ing tried. A salesman for the Indian- 

 apolis Producers is maintained at the 

 concentration point in the country to sell 

 livestock for patrons. 



In Richland county the Shipping As- 

 sociation has refused to be put out of 

 business by competing trucks. It recent- 

 ly bought a 1% ton truck and is now 

 giving its patrons marketing and trans- 

 portation service direct from farm to 

 market. 



Manager Harold Williamson says he 

 is keeping busy and his members like 

 the service. Most of the livestock from 

 this association goes to the Indianapolis 

 and St. Louis Producers. 



Field man S. T. Simpson of Illinois 

 Livestock Marketing Association reports 

 that White county held a market to\ir on 

 September 19 and a feed lot tour and 

 grrading demonstration on October 17. 



Macoupin county recently set up a live- 

 stock marketing committee with C. W. 

 Moflfett aS'chairman. 



One of the most active committees in 



MORGAN COUNTY LIVESTOCK SHIPPING SERVICE BOARD AND MARKETING COMMITTEE 

 Fin* row, left to right: Orlando Si«, EvereH G. Reynolds, Roy Burrus, E. E. Hart, R. B. Oxiay, 

 Robert Harney, Charles R. Gibson, Clyde Williams. Daniel Deitricl, president, was absent. 



Second row, left to right (Morgan County Ma'-lceting Committee): Lester E. Martin, president; 

 Frank J. Flynn, president Morgan County Farm Bureau; E. H. Twyford, Ralph Heaton, Coy Stice, 

 Fred Hagen, Harvey Conlee, and Austin Patterson. 



Third row, left to right: Herbert Simlie; I. E. Parett, former farm adviser; John Heaton, Har- 

 old Kamm, Henry DeFrates and Glenn Johnson. 



developing livestock marketing is at 

 work in Morgan county. This county has 

 developed a county shipping service 

 which is handling an ever-increasing vol- 

 ume of livestock co-operatively. More 

 than 400 producers attended Field Day 

 held on the Burrus Brothers' farm the 

 middle of September where livestock 

 grading -demonstrations and a speaking 

 program were held. 



During the month of October, a great 

 many livestock counties throughout the 

 State either have made or are planning 

 to make inspection trips to their respec- 

 tive terminal markets. On October 2, 38 

 men from Carroll County visited the 

 Chicago market. On October 7th, 17 

 Committeemen came in from LaSalle 

 County. There were 30 in the Ogle Coun- 

 ty group on October 8th. Eighty live- 

 stock producers from Ford County visited 

 the market on October the 10th. Jo 

 Daviess County had 23 on the 14th, Bu- 

 reau County 39 on the 15th, Knox, War- 

 ren and Henderson had 120 on the 17th. 



Livestock marketing committeemen of 

 Whiteside County visited the Chicago 

 yards on the 21st, DeKalb on the 22nd, 

 Henry and Rock Island on the 23rd 

 and Lee County on the 24th. Mercer 

 County made tentative plans for a trip 

 to Chicago on the 30th or the 31st. 



Delegations from Crawford-Jasper and 

 Clark counties visited the Indianapolis 

 Producers during October. Scott county 

 livestock men were at the St. Louis mar- 

 ket on the 24th. 



All of these meetings are under the 

 auspices of the County Marketing Com- 

 mittees and are a part of the general 

 program being carried out by Producer 

 Agencies, Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association, County Farm Bureaus and 

 the L A. A. 



Higher Hog Prices 



Increase Vaccination 



Member counties of the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Serum Association delivered 

 3,195,365 cc. of serum and virus during 

 the month of September. This was the 

 third largest month during 1935. During 

 August 3,632,120 cc. of serum and virus 

 were delivered and in May 3,58,065 cc. 

 The figure for the nine months period 

 is 18,140,665 cc. For the same nine 

 months in 1934, the Association handled 

 20,941,033 cc. This is a 14% reduction 

 which compares with a cut of 40 per- 

 cent in the number of hogs. 



At the present price of hogs, no farm- 

 er can afford to run the risk of cholera. 

 Very frequently outbreaks occur about 

 the time farmers turn their hogs into 

 new corn. The fact that the hogs are 

 not watched so closely together with the 

 change in diet frequently results in 

 heavy losses. j 



15 



16 Wool Growers Are 

 "Sitting Pretty"— Miller 



A total of 1516 wool producers in 58 

 Illinois counties consigned a total of 

 380,919 pounds of wool through the Illi- 

 nois Livestock Marketing Association and 

 the National Wool Marketing Corpora- 

 tion. This is the largest volume ever 

 handled cooperatively by the Associa- 

 tion. Prices have been rising gradually. 

 Present indications are that the man who 

 consigned his wool to be sold cooperatively 

 will be from 10c to 15c a pound better 

 off than many -vSho sold to local buyers 

 earlier in the season, says Ray E. Miller, 

 director of livestock and wool marketing. 



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