Here Is One Shipping Association 



Tiiat Still Carries On 



By LOUIS D. HALL 



VERYONE who listens in on 

 Chicago market livestock broad- 



casts has heard the Dwight 



Shipping Association mentioned many 

 times; for example Jim Clarke on the air 

 for Chicago Producers, saying "Top on 

 vealers was nine-fifty paid for select 

 calves such as those we had today from 

 the Dwight Shipping Association. " 



So you wonder who or what is 

 back of this Dwight cooperative any- 

 way, especially in these days when 

 such local livestock marketing groups 

 are pretty much out of the picture. 

 And when you find out that this partic- 

 ! ular unit has forwarded livestock to 

 • Chicago every week without a miss for 

 over eighteen years — brother, that is 

 .more than 940 consecutive weeks now 

 — your curiosity mounts. 



The folks around Dwight — Grundy 

 and Livingston County farmers who 

 make up this noteworthy marketing 

 organization — will tell you there are 

 two good reasons why they have stuck 

 together. One is, they like "Hans" 

 Hansen, the manager, for his careful, 

 competent and courteous way of run- 

 ning the business. Another is that 

 everyone likes Jim Neville, the truck- 

 man who picks up the animals at their 

 farms and hauls them in to the Chicago 

 Yards. Jim, in turn, gives due credit 

 to his two faithful drivers, the Seaman 

 brothers — John, who handles the 

 big International "Semi ' between 

 Dwight and Chicago; and Dan, whose 

 job is assembling the stock from the 

 farms to the loading point. Watch- 

 ing these four cooperators at work on 

 any Tuesday, busily locating, assemb- 

 ling, marking, billing and loading out 

 their weekly consignment of cattle, 

 calves, hogs and sheep to the Chicago 

 Producers, is a striking object lesson 

 in honest, capable, efficient and friend- 

 ly service. 



But that is only the beginning. So 

 solicitous is Manager Hansen for the 

 •interests of his members that he 

 personally accompanies each weekly 

 shipment to market and sees to every 

 detail of delivery and handling until 

 the last calf or pig is sold and driven 

 over the scales. Han's reputation among 

 the yardmen and buyers for his con- 

 scientious conduct of all his operations 

 and for the dependable grades of an- 

 imals he consigns, is regularly reflected 

 in the premium prices which his ship- 

 ments command. 



One of the Dwight Association's 

 distinctions is that of never having a 



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"HANS" HANSEN 

 He is one oi the reasons. 



mixup among animals handled for dif- 

 ferent members — another result of 

 extreme care in marking each shipper's 

 stock by Hans himself with a pair of 

 Chicago Producers special clipping 

 shears. Likewise, the losses due to 

 cripples or bruises in transit are kept 

 down practically to the irreducible 

 minimum. 



A long story could be written about 

 the benefits the Dwight Association 

 brings to its members, both in the way 

 of sales, saving and service. For ex- 

 ample, there is the recent case of a 

 cow for which one of the members had 

 been offered $35 by a local buyer, and 

 which sold for more than $63 net when 

 shipped through the Association. The 

 farm pick-up charge of 5 cents per 

 hundredweight and the regularity and 

 dependability of the weekly shipping 

 service have been important factors, 

 too, in making the Association a suc- 

 cess. 



Two of the wheel horses who de- 

 serve honorable mention in connection 

 with the original organization and the 

 continued activity of the Association 

 are President Fred Zabel and Secretary 

 William Hoffman. Both these men 

 are successful feeders in the community. 

 They have given unselfishly of their 

 time and support throughout the years 

 since the organization was launched. 



To their spirit of cooperation, together 

 with the faithful service of the men 

 who have carried on the actual work 

 from week to week, goes the credit 

 for making the Dwight Shipping Asso- 

 ciation an outstanding example among 

 those that have survived the changing 

 conditions of recent years. 



Fruit Growers Hold 

 Annual Meeting 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange was held 

 in the Exchange Building at Carbondale 

 on Thursday, May 12. The meeting was 

 well attended by the membership and 

 guests of the Exchange. 



The morning session was devoted to 

 regular business consisting of an address 

 by President Talmage Defrees, presenta- 

 tion of the financial report. Field Secre- 

 tary's report by Logan Colp, and the 

 Manager's report by H. W. Day. 



R. W. Blackburn, Secretary of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation of 

 Chicago was the principal speaker of the 

 afternoon. He addressed the group on 

 "Fundamentals of Cooperation." S. C. 

 Chandler of the Natural History Survey 

 gave a brief report on general insect 

 conditions throughout the state. Officers 

 elected for the ensuing year are: Tal- 

 mage Defrees, Smithboro, president; R. 

 B. Endicott, Villa Ridge, vice-president; 

 Logan Colp, Carterville, secretary-treas- 

 urer. Directors elected for a term of 

 three years are: Chester Boland, Paris; 

 Harry Fulkerson, Grafton; Professor J. 

 W. Lloyd, Urbana; Joe B. Hale, Salem; 

 Fred Bierer, Jr., Murphysboro. Other 

 directors whose terms have not expired 

 are: W. L. Cope, Salem: John Gage. Mt. 

 Vernon; Nelson Cummins, Dix; Floyd 

 Anderson, Anna; L. L. Anderson, Sum- 

 mer Hill; Arthur Foreman, Pittsfield; 

 and Alfred Kinsey, Centralia. 



Soils become acid because the lime is 

 used by crops and carried away in drainage 

 water. 



Farm Adviser Glenn Smith of Pope- 

 Hardin Farm Bureau says 217 farmers ap- 

 plied 10,000 tons of limestone during 1937 

 in the two counties. The average applica- 

 tion was 40 tons per farm. 



An amount of calcium equivalent to 208 



lbs. of limestone is removed from an acre 

 of soil over a period of four years when 

 average yields are obtained in a four-year 

 rotation of corn, oats, wheat and clover. 



"Corn ground is an ideal place to apply 



limestone, either before or after planting 

 and before the corn is high enough to inter- 

 fere with spreading," says S. M. Linsley, 

 U. of I. Soils Extension specialist. "Lime- 

 stone applied at this time has the advantage 

 of a longer time to act before clover is 

 seeded, and the cultivatioti of the corn 

 mixes it thoroughly with the soil." 



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