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.; BEEF — $4.75 AND $7 

 "The th!n cow brought a good price became 

 there is a steady demand for cutters. The 

 fat cow was in competition with low-grade 

 steers." 



Left: FEEL THE CONDITION — 

 that's the way packer calf buyers find the 

 value of a calf. 



BOND COUNTY FARM BUREAU 

 members are proud of their office building. 

 It is located just off the court house square in 

 Greenville. 



A Trip To The 



St. Louis Producers 



Bond County Growers Leam Some of the 

 Fine Points About Marketing Livestock 



y^ T'S one thing to raise livestock 



l/l and quite another to sell it. So 

 \^ more than 70 Bond county stock- 

 men discovered when they visited the 

 sales pens of the Producers Livestock 

 Commission Association in East St. 

 Louis, March 25. According to L F. 

 Green, Bond county farm adviser, the 

 stock raisers saw an outstanding demon- 

 stration of what to look for in judging 

 market cattle. 



Most of the farmers in the group were 

 new members of the Bond County Farm 

 Bureau. The county's livestock marketing 

 committee sponsored the trip, provided 

 cars, arranged to have all new members 

 present. 



Arriving at the National Stock Yards 

 around ten o'clock, the men went to the 



Producers' offices, cheerfully signed the 

 roster which served as a check on the 

 number who would get dinners, learned 

 that the market was steady. Mr. Moore 

 of the Producers' publicity department 

 explained that most of the trading for 

 the day was over and that all but a few 

 of the animals had been moved to pack- 

 ers' pens. He told the group that some 

 of the stock had been held for their 

 inspection, that one pen of fat heifers 

 was still unsold and they might have 

 a chance to see buyers bidding on them. 

 Holding hats and bending against the 

 stiff, raw northerly wind, the party 

 tramped out to the Producers' cattle pens. 

 Lee Devine, Producers' top cattleman, 

 was waiting with a few head of cows, 

 calves, and steers, a cross section of the 



BOND COUNTY LIVESTOCK GROWERS 

 at National Stock Yards. 73 Farm Bureau members — (53 of them 

 new), pose for a picture. 



C. H. MOORE 

 "Dinner's Ready — 

 Come and get it." 



day's receipts, for the farmers to ex- 

 amine. 



Devine brought out some calves, re- 

 vealed the prices packers had paid for 

 them, pointed out the differences in 

 quality which were responsible for the 

 various prices. 



"Get in there and feel "em boys," 

 Devine instructed, "That's the way the 

 packer buyers find out what they're 

 worth." 



With that invitation the stock men 

 crowded in, felt tailheads, loins, and 

 hides. By the time the third lot of 

 calves was driven out for inspection, 

 many of the Bond county men were able 

 to place them according to their rela- 

 tive values. 



A pair of cows, one as thin as a rail, 

 the other in good condition, caused more 

 speculation among the farmers than any 

 other exhibit. They estimated that the 

 skinny one was worth three cents and 

 the fat one eight cents. They guessed 

 that the little one would weigh about 

 650, the fat one 1200. Sales slips showed 

 that the bundle of skin and bones 

 weighed 930, brought $4.75 a hundred 



ON THE MOVE 

 "A cold wind and a long hike 

 through the yards whetted appetites." 



MAY, 1937 



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