$6,500,000 More for 

 3,668 Carloads Less 



IT isn't how much hvestock you sell, it's 

 what you get for it that counts. 

 Last year corn-belt livestock producers 

 received $6,500,000 for 3,668 carloads less of 

 livestock handled by the Chicago Producers 

 compared with 1934. So reported Manager 

 D. L. Swanson at the annual meeting of the 

 Association in Chicago. March 10. 



The Producers handled 13.85 per cent of 

 total receipts at Chicago compared with 12.9 

 per cent in 1934. Volume handled by the 

 co-operative declined only 19.41 per cent, 

 whereas total market receipts at the Union 

 Stock Yards shrank 27.5 per cent. Sharp re- 

 ductions in the number of head handled 

 resulted in practically all classes of live- 

 stock except sheep. Here there was a 

 slight gain of 7.21 per cent. 



The Producers were easily first in total 

 volume, handling more than the next three 

 largest firms. The co-operative was first 

 in cattle, first in hogs and first in sheep. 

 It handled 19.94 per cent of all the hogs 

 going to market. 15.4 per cent of the calves. 

 19.71 per cent of sheep. 8.83 per cent of cattle 

 and 15.03 per cent of all livestock received 

 by truck. The bulk of the Producers' ship- 

 ments originated on Illinois farms. 



The Producers handled business for live- 

 stock growers in 27 states and Canada. Its 

 receipts were 15.406 carloads and its pur- 

 chases of feeder stock totaled 677 carloads, 

 the bulk of which went to Illinois farmers. 

 Illinois led all states by a wide margin 

 in patronizing producers with a total of 11.- 

 405 carloads. 



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Pres. Henry Parke of DeKalb county presides 



Clifford V. Gregory, editor of Prairie 

 Farmer, who made the principal address 

 before the gathering of some 450 men, talked 

 on "Foreign Trade." *'We all hope that we 

 can get back our foreign markets for pork, 

 wheat and other farm products," he said, 

 "for farm prosperity in this country has 

 been greatest when we had good exjMrt 

 markets. But the closer we get to our cus- 

 tomers the better off we are. And in my 

 opinion we should do nothing to discourage 

 industrial production in this country. It's 

 easy to talk about buying from foreign 

 countries so that they may buy more from 



Annual Meeting Report^!i 

 Show Chicago Producers 

 Continues Gains, Leads All 

 Agencies In Market Receipts 



us. But it's more difficult to decide just 

 what we shall buy. When you simmer it all 

 down there isn't so much that we need 

 from foreign countries. The outlook for 

 greatly expanding foreign outlets for our 

 farm products in the immediate future is 

 not bright." 



Mr. Gregory asserted that it is good 

 sense to restrict production until buying 

 power, both at home and abroad, is suffi- 

 cient to pay the farmer a fair price for all 

 he can produce. "In the meantime," he said, 

 "we should keep out competing agricultural 

 imports, take out of production our sur- 

 plus acres and do what we can to stimulate 

 new industrial uses for farm products. 



"The present economic condition through- 

 out the world does not call for as much 

 foreign trade as existed during and follow- 

 ing the World war. Many countries are do- 

 ing things for themselves that they did not 

 do before. The fear of war has driven 



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Manager Dave Swanson with stogie, and Di- 

 rector Geo. F. Tullock, RocWord. left, at Chi- 

 cago Producers meeting. 



European nations to increase food produc- 

 tion. They are getting along without exten- 

 sive unports of food supplies." 



Other speakers were Chas. A. Ewing, 

 president National Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation and E. A. Beamer. president. De- 

 troit Packing Co. 



President Henry H. Parke, of De Kalb 

 county, presided. The audience was com- 

 posed largely of Illinois. Southern Wisconsin 

 and Elastern Iowa livestock producers. Di- 

 rectors whose terms expired were re-elected. 



Unite" Key 

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 Milk 



C C V T will take the co-operation of all pro- 



I ducers in the Chicago milk shed to 



hold the market and stabilize prices 



on a satisfactory level in the months ahead." 



This challenging plea for unity featured 

 the addresses of both the president and 

 manager at the eleventh annual meeting of 

 the Pure Milk Association in Chicago 

 Mar. 10. 



Manager Don Geyer who made his last 

 appearance before the Association before 

 leaving for his new job as production man- 

 ager for a large milk distributor at Boston, 

 charged that the one thousand or more so- 

 called "independents" who left the Associa- 

 tion have been selling milk at cut prices to 

 smaller dealers. These producers are re- 

 sponsible for the recent decision of the As- 

 sociation to reduce its price 20 cents a hun- 

 dred to the dealers, he said. 



Both President John F. Case of Dupage 

 county, m., and Geyer urged the necessity 



for all producers to get under one roof and 

 work together in maintaining the market 

 for producers in the Chicago milk shed. Re- 

 ferring to the milk strike of last fall, Gejrer 

 asserted that its avowed purpose was to 

 seciu-e a flat price of $2.50 per cwt. for all 

 milk. 



"In reaUty the strike wa* directed at the 

 destruction or control of the Pure Milk 

 Association." he said. "This was a clear case 

 of attempted minority rule of a co-opera- 

 tive. We finally lost about a thousand 

 members representing some 750,000 pouixl* 

 of base milk. Since that time this and other 

 'independent' milk has constantly been forc- 

 ing its way into the market at cut prices. Some 

 of our buyers left because cut prices were 

 too tempting." 



Recommend Plants 



In making their annual report both Case 

 and Geyer recommended that the Associa- 

 tion acquire manufacturing facilities to 

 handle surplus milk as rapidly as finance* 

 will permit, but only to the extent that 

 such facilities can be operated profitably. 

 Geyer recommended that the cream market 

 be left open, that the Association do not 

 contract to furnish 100 per cent of milk 

 and cream requirements because of the ne- 

 cessity in such ca5es of carrying a large 

 reserve to provide for wide fluctuations in 

 market demands. 



The Association can gain nothing, he said, 

 by forcing distributors into banlcruptcy for 

 the sake of a few cents in today's milk 



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