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More Money For 

 Less Livestock 



Chicago Producers Annual 

 Meeting Discloses Interesting 



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By CAP MAST 



>^F the attendance at the l6th An- 



l/l nual Meeting of the Chicago 

 \^ Producers Commission Associa- 

 tion can be used as a barometer for 

 increased interest in cooperative live- 

 stock marketing, 1938 will see a big 

 increase in the percentage of livestock 

 marketed through cooperative channels. 



More than 600 stockmen taxed the 

 capacity of quarters provided for the 

 meeting in the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, 

 March 8th. Walls of the meeting room 

 were decorated with a variety of posters, 

 evidences of the part played by organized 

 producers in the recent campaign to get 

 consumers to eat more meat, by pointing 

 out that retail prices of meat have been 

 greatly reduced. 



There were also a series of charts on 

 display portraying the growth of the 

 Chicago Producers since its beginning in 

 1922, showing source of receipts and 

 purchases, and depicting the average and 

 total values of cars of livestock for the 

 period 1934-1937 received by the Pro- 

 ducers. 



A meat cutting demonstration by Max 

 CuUen of the National Livestock and 

 Meat Board produced sheer amazement 

 on the part of many in attendance who 

 saw in a few short moments first a hind 

 quarter, then a fore quarter of choice 

 beef quickly and apparently "with the 

 greatest of ease" transformed into cuts 

 ready for the oven or frying pan. 



This, together with a meat grading 

 demonstration by representatives of the 

 U. S. D. A. coming just as it did, be- 

 fore lunch, did its part in creating a 

 keen appetite for the roast beef luncheon. 

 Following a half hour entertainment by 

 WLS Artists, H. H. Parke, Genoa, Illi- 

 nois, was re-elected to serve District 1, 

 and Chas. W. Martin, Jefferson, Iowa, 

 District 8. Theo. Funk, Shirley, 111., 

 was elected Director from the 5th district. 

 He succeeds Chas. W. Ewing, who re- 

 signed. 



"Another increase in percentage of 

 yard receipts, and increases in percentage 

 of all classes of livestock — cattle, calves. 



"THArS THE WAY TD DO IT," 

 said Max CuUen, of the National Livestock ond Moot 

 Board as he demonstrated the art of cutting meat 

 into roasts, steaks, etc, with a mitiimimi oi time and 



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YEARLY PERCEfyUAGE OF OPEN MARKET RECEIPT^ 

 HANPLEp_BY_CHICAGp PRODUCERS ^ 1 



SINCE FOUNDED IN JUNE 1922 



OmCERS AND MANAGER 

 L. to R. H. A. Dobbin. State Center, Iowa, Vice President- 

 Henry Weiland, Beloit. Wise, Sec'y-Treas.- H. H. Parke, Genoa, 

 Illinois, President, and D. L. Swanson, Mgr. 



YEARLY PERCEiyiTAGE OF OPEN MARKET RECEIPTS' 



HANDLED BY CHICAGO PRODUCERS >^ 

 * SINCE FOUNDED IN JUNE 1922 = 



APRIL, 1938 



