Clifford Strand Is 



New Audit Manager 



Cliliord E. Strand, Chicago, certified 

 public accountant, succeeded Fred E. 

 Ringham as manager of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Auditing Association, February 1. 



Born 36 years ago on a farm near 

 Kane, McKean county, in mountainous 

 northwest Pennsylvania, Mr. Strand left 

 the farm in 1919 to study business at the 

 University of Valparaiso in Indiana. He 

 received a bachelor of science degree in 

 commerce in 1923. Later he attended 

 the Walton School of Commerce and 

 Northwestern University, Chicago. 



' After spending an adventurous year 

 •n the Texas oil fields. Strand returned 

 to his study of accounting and became 

 a certified public accountant in 1925. 

 For 12 years he has been auditing ac- 

 counts under his own name in Chicago. 

 In 1929 he was admitted to membership 

 in the American Institute of Accountants. 

 Strand is married and has a son age five. 



Cattle Feeders 



(Continued from page 8) 

 an eight cent margin," Birtwell recalls. 



Like true cattlemen the country over, 

 Galan came right back with 106 head of 

 Texas Herefords weighing 395 p>ounds 

 for which he paid $10.50. While the 

 margin on these cattle is not likely to be 

 wide enough for Galan to recoup his 

 recent losses, he believes that with the 

 cheap gains he has been able to put on 

 them he will do better than break even. 



Here again is an example of a large 

 farm that has become so fertile through 

 the use of crop rotation and feed lot 

 manure that small grains readily lodge 

 and com is produced in abundance. 

 Galan raises more than 200 acres of corn 

 on the 480 acres and feeds more than he 

 raises each year. 



Harvey Norem, Farm Bureau director 

 in Big Grove township, Kendall county, 

 disagrees with other cattle feeders. 



"I don't see that the crop surplus will 

 make any difference to cattle feeders. As 

 long as livestock numbers are not con- 

 trolled we'll have swings in cattle prices 

 and there will be those who will feed 

 when prices are high. 



"The new AA/T is a step in the right 

 direction. It will stabilize grain prices 

 first but we'll have to do something to 

 stabilize livestock prices later." 



Harvey operates 835 acres of which 

 300 acres are planted to corn each year 

 He u.sually feeds all the grain he raises 

 and sometimes buys more. His main 



enterprise is a dairy herd of 40 to 50 

 cows and his leading product is milk 

 which is sold on the Chicago market 

 through the Pure Milk Association. 



He has been a steady feeder for eight 

 years but he varies his feeding operations 

 to fit the market conditions. Ordinarily 

 Norem carries from 50 to 100 head but 

 in 1937 he fed 138. He prefers yearlings 

 weighing about 600 pounds. He starts 

 feeding after the fall pasture and rough- 

 age has been cleaned up and sells in 

 May. Harvey had 25 head of calves on 

 full feed on February 10 that he plans 

 to sell in three months. 



Kendall County Farm Bureau presi- 

 dent, Dana Cryder is a Polled Hereford 

 breeder who feeds only the steers he 

 raises. 



"If the price of corn is stabilized it 

 will be the best thing that has ever hap- 

 pened to cattlemen. Cheap com has put 

 everyone in the cattle feeding business. 

 Some came out all right and some didn't. 

 The hog feeders are facing the same 

 market situation that the cattle feeders 

 have had all winter," Cryder declares. 



Dana is operating his mother's 320 

 acre farm. His normal corn acreage is 

 100 acres and he grows plenty of sweet 

 clover and alfalfa to improve soil fertil- 

 ity and provide ample pasture and hay 

 for his 35 cows and 200 or more pigs. 



The 230 pigs Dana raised this year 

 are cross-bred Berkshire and Chester 

 White. He plans to have about 100 pigs 

 farrow in the spring and 100 in the 

 fall. 



Does the 1938 AAA herald a new era 

 of farm prosperity? Opinions of eight 

 cattle feeders in three counties indicate 

 that it does. 



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NEWS 



The Farmers Creamery of Blooniing- 



ton is leading other Producers' cream- 

 eries in butter production with Peoria 

 and Galesburg crowding each other for 

 second place. 



The Illinois Producers Creameries 

 board met in the lAA offices Feb. 23. 

 Harold Enns, Minier, was elected pres- 

 ident, Harry Gehring, Altona, vice- 

 president, William Bismark. Geneseo. 



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Members are invited to express their 

 opinions and to offer comments for publi- 

 cation in this column. Address Editor. 

 lAA RECORD. 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago 

 With more power to you. 



Thank You! 



Editor, lAA RECORD: 



I have long been on the point of com- 

 plimenting you on the wonderful job you are 

 doing with the lAA Record. 



The February issue did a lot for me in that 

 I was not able to attend the state meeting 

 and after all, I usually got more out of the 

 meetings from the stenographic copies of the 

 speeches than I did by listening to them. The 

 "Record" is about the only publication with 

 courage to advocate the farmers cause. After 

 all. what a w(>nderful thing a free press is. 

 G. R. Morris, 

 Chadwick, 

 Carroll County, III. 

 Note: Mr. Morris is former president of the 

 Carroll County Farm Bureau. 



Hybrid Com 



■ Your article on Hybrid Corn on page 12 

 of tlie February issue of the Record was of 

 much interest to the people of this community. 

 We would appreciate receiving mats of the 

 pictures used in your article. Proper credit 

 will be given when the article is published 

 I am a member of the Ford County Farm 

 Bureau." 



T. D. Thackeray, Editor 



The Melvin Motor, Melvin, III. 



secretary and R. A. Cowles, Blooming- 

 ton, treasurer. Plans to increase butter 

 production were discussed and a budget 

 was adopted. j 



The story of how the best cream sales- 

 men win is being written, week by week, by 

 the salesmen themselves, reports Frank A 

 Gougler, general manager of Illinois Pro- 

 ducers' Creameries. 



"Each week every cream salesman is invited 

 to write a 200 word letter answering a ques- 

 tion related to some particular phase of our 

 procurement problem. Each week the answers 

 are judged and the best two are printed in a 

 folder which is sent to our salesmen. By Jan- 

 uary 19-^9, each salesman will have a file of 

 104 answers to questions which arise in their 

 daily contacts with cream producers," Gougler 

 points out. 



Best reasons why cooperatives pay all cream 

 IS worth, according to the Chicago standard 

 butter price, were submitted by Lester Painter, 

 Bloumington, and James W. Lauver, Gales- 

 burg. Honorable mention went to Everette 

 Zerkle, OIney; Earl G. Palmer, Galesburg: 

 H. S. Williams, Bloomington; and James Mat- 

 ternick, Mt. Sterling. 



During the first annual meeting of the 

 Ogle Service Company, Oregon, January 18. 

 a patronage dividend of $6,216.74 was de- 

 clared. Dividend rates ranged from 8 to 20 

 percent. In the six and one-half months 

 prior to the closing of their fiscal year, Novem- 

 ber 30, total sales of the company amounted 

 to $8^.25~.(H). 



I. A. A. RECORD 



