Herf Ik Out' Hliippiiig /Issoeialioii 



That Still Currii's llii 



By LOUIS D. HALL 



XIR'^'ONr who llstcn^ in on 

 (.hic.ii;o market livestock broad 

 casts has heard the Dwi^ht 

 Shipping Association mentioned many 

 times; tor example Jim ( larke on tlie air 

 for C hiiai;o Proiluiers, saying Top on 

 vealers was ninetitty paid tor select 

 calves such as those we had today Iroin 

 the Dwicht Shipping Association." 



So you wonder who or what is 

 back of this Dwi^ht 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 - brotlier. that is 

 more than 9)0 consecutive weeks now 

 — your curiosity mounts 



The folks around Dwi^lit drundy 

 and Livingston Ciounty f.irnurs who 

 make up this noteworthy marketini; 

 orijanization will tell you there are 

 two uood re.isons why they have stuck 

 together. One is, they like Hans" 

 Hansen, the manager, for his taretul, 

 competent and courteous way ol riin- 

 nini; 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 C hicayo 

 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. \X'atch- 

 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 triend- 

 ly serviee 



But th.it is only the beginning. So 

 solicitous IS Manager Hansen for the 

 interests of his members that he 

 personally accompanies caeh weekly 

 shipment to market and sees to every 

 detail of delivery and handling until 

 the last c.ilf or pig is sold and ilriven 

 over the scales. Hans 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 of the reasons. 



mixup .imong animals handled for dif- 

 ferent members another result ot 

 extreme eare in marking each shippers 

 stock by Hans himself with a pair of 

 ( hieago Producers special clipping 

 shears. Likewise, the losses due to 

 crf]-i|sles or bruises in transit are kept 

 down pr.ielically to the irreducible 

 minimum. 



A long story eouki be written about 

 (he 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 

 eow fe>r which one of the members had 

 been offered S3'> by a local buyer, and 

 uhiih sold for more than $63 net when 

 shipped through the Association. The 

 t.irm piek-up iharge of *> cents per 

 luindredueight and the regularity and 

 dcpend.ibility of the weekly shipping 

 service ha\e 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 

 continueel activity of the Association 

 are President I'red 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. 



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Fruit lirnuprs Hiild 

 Aiiiiiiiil Meeting 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 Illinois hruit Growers I:xchange was held 

 in the I'.xch.mge Building .it Carbondale 

 on Ihurselay, May 12. The meeting w,is 

 well atteneled by the membership and 

 guests of the txchange. 



1 he morning session was devoted to 

 regular business consisting of an adelress 

 hy President Talm.ige Defrees, presenta- 

 tion of the financial report. Field Secre- 

 tary's report by Logan C'olp, and the 

 Nfan.iger's report by H. VC-'. Day. 



R. W. Blackburn, Secretary of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation of 

 ( hieago was the principal speaker of the 

 afternoon. He addressed the group on 

 'Tundamentals of Cooperation. " S. C. 

 f handler of the Natural History Survey 

 gave a brief report on general insect 

 conditions throughout the state. Officers 

 elected for the ensuing year arc: Tal- 

 mage Defrees, Smithboro, president ; R, 

 B. Fndicott. X'illa Ridge, vice-president; 

 Logan ( olp. (arterville, secretary-treas- 

 urer. Directors elected for a term of 

 three years are: Chester Boland, Paris; 

 Harry I'ulkerson. Grafton; Professor J. 

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

 Fred Bierer, Jr.. Murphyshoro. Other 

 directors whose terms have not expired 

 are: \V. L. Co]^c. 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 



usi-,1 by eriips an. I c.irritil away in drainage 

 water. 



Farm Adviser Cllenn Smith of Pope- 



Hariliii r.um HiiitMU s.iys 21" farmers ap- 

 plied 1(1,1)00 tons of limestone during 1957 

 in tlie two counties. The average applica- 

 tion was 10 tons per farm. 



An amount of calcium equivalent to 208 



lbs. of limestimc is re-move-d 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 



hmestone. either before or after planting 

 and before the corn is high enough to inter- 

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

 I', of I. Soils Extension specialist. "Lime- 

 stone .ipplied at this time has the advantage 

 of a longer time to act before clover is 

 seeded, and the cultivation of the corn 

 mixes It thoroughly with the soil.' 



L A. A. RECORD 





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