anJ tli.it tlie ^ood cow weighed close 

 to I 3(10 and sold for S~.00 per hundred. 



Asked to explain the apparent dis- 

 crepancy, Dcvinc told the party that the 

 market for canner cows had been ^ood 

 for some time because the small packers 

 and sausaije makers like that kind ot 

 beef for their products and the runs 

 of canners have been lifjht. 



Over in the ho^' sheds, E. R. Hines, 

 head lio_i; salesman, displayed examples 

 of the various market types. He ex- 

 plained Hiat although the run for the 

 day had been heavy, there had been little 

 ditticulty in niovini: the offering's and 

 the market had remained steady. Hines 

 expressed ilis.ippointment 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 hoi;s a little 

 corn," Hines explained, "because ex- 

 perience has shown that 3*1 cents worth 

 of corn fed at the yards will return 

 several doll.irs to the hoe raiser through 

 better lookint; hoes." 



Dinner was served in the Nation.il 

 Hotel ilinint; rc)om followiiit; whith the 

 heads of the Producers sales toric dis- 

 cussed market trenils. Lee Devine pointed 

 out that the scarcity of teed in many 

 sections tlurini; the past year had broutlht 

 too manv iintinished cattle to the markets 

 He nienlioned a shortaee of ijualitv 

 calves, ur^ed Bond coiinty prodiKcrs to 

 keep their yoimu lalves on teed and 

 showed them that the feed would he 

 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 ran^'es in 

 the ^X'est 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 u[^ 

 a few ewes of mutton type and ^et into 

 the business in order to take advantage 

 of the lone time trenij of cood sheep 

 prices now becinnint;. 



In his pointed talk on "The Business 

 of Co-operative Marketing," Mr. Moore 

 showed that, on the St. Louis market. 

 there are ■(() concerns now sellini; live- 

 stock to five major buyers. Such a balance 

 results in a buyers market with the 

 buyers organized and the sellers doing .1 

 haphazard job. Moore said. 



"If livestock producers want to cet 

 all their stock is worth they must sell 

 it through well organi/ed channels! 

 Moore exilainied 



The Producers salesmen had more m 

 formation about the runs on other mar 

 kets than anv buyer in the Yards; tliev 

 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" 



cago selling them tluougli the Chicago 

 Producers. He vaccinates his own pigs 

 using Farm Bureau serum. He serves 

 on the Township Soil Conservation 

 Committee, patronizes the Knox C'ounty 

 Oil Company. In fact, tiie 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 tr.ictors work 

 better on g.isolinc." he said. "Kero- 

 sene is all right too but we found 

 that it rec|uircd more lubricating oil 

 when we used kerosene. It tends to 

 dilute the cylinder oil in the crank 

 case. Ciasoline. without the tax. he 

 said, costs about ll'i cents and the 

 dividend brought it down to about 

 lO'j cents. Kerosene runs about 8' 3 

 cents net so there isn't much difference 

 all things considered 



One year the Shaw's p.itronage divi- 

 dend from the Knox ( ounty 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 arc in- 

 fluential in holding the organization to- 

 gether. Yet they realize that these are 

 insignificant ■when compared with the 

 opportunities for profit by practicing 

 top-notch farming methods as taught 

 by the County I'arm Bureau and state 

 agricultural extension service. They 

 hold paramount the benefits farmers 

 have cjerived from the Farm Bureau's 

 successful efforts to get parity prices 

 for farm products, lower property 

 faxes, reduced transportation and utility 

 rates, and improved roads out of gas 

 t.ix funds. 



The Sliaws 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 S200. 



— 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 Circene and Marshall-Put- 

 nam counties before going to McLean. 



De Weril Goes to Urbana 



After serving the Woodford County 

 Farm Bureau for 1 2 years. Farm Adviser 

 Henry A. de^X'erff 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 deWerflf 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 inember 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- 

 iord county from I'ranklin county where 

 lie was farm adviser. T. H. Brock, 

 I arm adviser in Macoupin county, suc- 

 ceeded deWerff as Woodford county 

 farm adviser April 1. 



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