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More Money For 

 Less Livestock 



Producers Annual 

 Meeting Discloses Interesting 



Trends -^ 



By CAP MAST 



/T y' the attendance at the 16th An- 



1)1 niial Mcetini; of the O^icago 

 \_^ Proiluccrs (ommission A*ona- 

 tion can he used as a barometer tor 

 increased interest in cooperative live- 

 stock marketini;, UMS will see a bis; 

 increase in the percentage of livestock 

 marketed through cooperative channels. 



More than 600 stockmen taxed the 

 capacity of t|uarters provided for the 

 meeting in the LaSalle Hotel, (hicago. 

 March Hth. Walls of the meeting room 

 were decorated with a variety of posters, 

 evidences ofthe 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 ol charts on 

 display portraying the grov\th 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 

 Cullen of the National Livestock and 

 Meat Beard produced sheer amazement 

 on the paP^ 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. l-unk. Shirley, III., 

 was elected Director from the 5th district. 

 He succeeds Chas. W, liwing. who re- 

 signed. 



Another increase in percentage of 

 yard receipts, and increases in percentage 

 of all classes of livestock - cattle, calves. 



"THAT'S THE WAY ID DO IT." 

 said Max Cullen, of the National Livestock and Meal 

 Board as he demonstrated the art of cutting meat 

 into roasts, steaks, etc.. with a minimum oi time and 

 eflort. 



YEARLY PERCEMTAGE OF OPEW MARKET RECEIPTS 

 HANDLED BY CHICAGO PRODUCERS i< 

 SIIMCE FOUIMDED IN JUfME 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 PERCENTAGE OF OPE(\J MARKET RECEIPTS 



HANDLED BY CHICAGO PRODUCERS - 

 ^ SIIMCE FOUNDED IN JUNE 1922 = 



16- 

 15- 



"22 SZS I9» 1925 S26 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 f932 1933 934 (935 1936 l»7 i 



APRIL. 1938 



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