and that the good cow weighed close 

 to 1 300 and sold for $7.00 per hundred. 



Asked to explain the apparent dis- 

 crepancy, Devine told the party that the 

 market for canner cows had been good 

 for some time because the small packers 

 and sausage makers like that kind of 

 beef for their products and the runs 

 of canners have been light. 



Over in the hog sheds, E. R. Hines, 

 head hog salesman, displayed examples 

 of the various market types. He ex- 

 plained that although the run for the 

 day had been heavy, there had been little 

 difficulty in moving the offerings and 

 the market had remained steady. Hines 

 expressed disappointment that the mar- 

 ket had not advanced as was expected 

 and laid some of the blame on the price 

 of corn. 



"We always feed the hogs a little 

 corn," Hines explained, "because ex- 

 perience has shown that 35 cents worth 

 of corn fed at the yards will return 

 several dollars to the hog raiser through 

 better looking hogs." 



Dinner was served in the National 

 Hotel dining room following which the 

 heads of the Producers sales force dis- 

 cussed market trends. Lee Devine pointed 

 out that the scarcity of feed in many 

 sections during the past year had brought 

 too many unfinished cattle to the markets. 

 He mentioned a shortage of quality 

 calves, urged Bond county producers to 

 keep their young calves on feed and 

 showed them that the feed would be 

 paid for when the animals were sold. 



Oscar White, sheep salesman for the 

 Producers, depicted the present condition 

 of the sheep industry in the United 

 States. He explained that the ranges in 

 the West have been broken up into small 

 farms and that there is likely to be a 

 broader market in the near future. He 

 urged the Bond county men to pick up 

 a few ewes of mutton type and get into 

 the business in order to take advantage 

 of the long time trend of good sheep 

 prices now beginning. 



In his pointed talk on "The Business 

 of Co-operative Marketing," Mr. Moore 

 showed that, on the St. Louis market, 

 there are 40 concerns now selling live- 

 stock to five major buyers. Such a balance 

 results in a buyers' market with the 

 buyers organized and the sellers doing a 

 haphazard job, Moore said. 



"If livestock producers want to get 

 all their stock is worth they must sell 

 it through well organized channels!" 

 Moore exclaimed. 



The Producers salesmen had more in- 

 formation about the runs on other mar- 

 kets than any buyer in the Yards; they 

 knew before they opened bids the price 

 buyers would have to pay to get the 

 stock, Moore told them. If the Producers 

 Commission Associations in all the mar- 



kets could have the selling of half the 

 animals on those markets the prices of 

 livestock, in his opinion, would be well 

 above the prices buyers are now paying. 

 In order to see all the steps in handling 

 livestock on a major market, the Farm 

 Bureau group from Bond county visited 

 one of the large packing plants to see 

 the stock slaughtered and the meat cut, 

 cured, canned and made ready for the 

 consumer. 



"The Farm Bureau 

 Taught Us" 



(Continued from page 14) 



cago selling them through the Chicago 

 Producers. He vaccinates his own pigs 

 using Farm Bureau serum. He serves 

 on the Township Soil Conservation 

 Committee, patronizes the Knox County 

 Oil Company. In fact, the Farm Bur- 

 eau and its services are accepted as 

 necessary to the efficient and profitable 

 operation of the farm. 



Shaw uses Aladdin gasoline in all 

 three tractors. "The tractors work 

 better on gasoline," he said. "Kero- 

 sene is all right too, but we found 

 that it required more lubricating oil 

 when we used kerosene. It tends to 

 dilute the cylinder oil in the crank 

 case. Gasoline, without the tax, he 

 said, costs about 11 14 cents and the 

 dividend brought it down to about 

 1014 cents. Kerosene runs about 8I/2 

 cents net so there isn't much difference 

 all things considered. 



One year the Shaw's patronage divi- 

 dend from the Knox County Oil Com- 



PRODUCERS' LEE DEVINE 

 "Keep that 'bloom' on your calves — it 

 makes 'em Sell." 



pany amounted to $150. Last year it 

 was a little more than $120. 



What little cream Irving produces 

 goes to the Producers Creamery of 

 Galesburg. Insurance is carried in the 

 lAA-Farm Bureau companies. 



Both Irving and his father concede 

 that the commercial money-saving ser- 

 vices to Farm Bureau members are in- 

 fluential in holding the organization to- 

 gether. Yet they reaUze that these are 

 insignificant when compared with the 

 opfKjrtunities for profit by practicing 

 top-notch farming methods as taught 

 by the County Farm Bureau and state 

 agricultural extension service. They 

 hold paramount the benefits farmers 

 have derived from the Farm Bureau's 

 successful efforts to get parity prices 

 for farm products, lower property 

 taxes, reduced transportation and utility 

 rates, and improved roads out of gas 

 tax funds. 



The Shaws insist that efficient pro- 

 duction and parity prices for farm 

 products are the chief reasons for agri- 

 cultural organization. They place these 

 things first despite the fact that their 

 savings on insurance, oil and serum 

 coming to them as Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers last year approximated $200. 



— Editor. 



R. J. Laible Quits 



R. J. "Rusty " Laible, of McLean coun- 

 ty, one of Illinois' outstanding farm ad- 

 visers has resigned to go into the hybrid 

 seed corn business. He was presented 

 with a gold watch by his associates at 

 a farewell meeting recently. Assistant 

 Adviser Lloyd Rodman was appointed 

 to succeed him. 



Mr. Laible served with great ability 

 as adviser in Greene and Marshall-Put- 

 nam counties before going to McLean. 



i De Werif Goes to Urbana 



After serving the Woodford County 

 Farm Bureau for 12 years, Farm Adviser 

 Henry A. deWerff resigned to carry on 

 soil extension work for the University 

 of Illinois and the federal soil conserva- 

 tion service at Urbana. 



During the past 12 years deWerff re- 

 ports that alfalfa acreage doubled in 

 the county. 



Before going to Woodford county, Mr. 

 deWerff spent six years on the state soil 

 survey and was a member of the soil 

 physics staff of the University of Illi- 

 nois, college of agriculture. He also 

 served in the A.E.F. university of Beaune, 

 France, in the war. He came to Wood- 

 ford county from Franklin county where 

 he was farm adviser. T. H. Brock, 

 farm adviser in Macoupin county, suc- 

 ceeded deWerff as Woodford county 

 farm adviser April 1. 



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