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GRAIN 



Frank Haines, an officer in J. H. 

 Dole & Co., grain commission mer- 

 chants at Chicago for many years, has 

 been employed as manager of Illinois 

 Grain Corporation. Haines has been 

 in the grain commission business in 

 Chicago for more than 25 years, has 

 held a membership in the Chicago 

 Board of Trade since 1912. Mr. Haines 

 is middle-aged and resides with his 

 wife, son and daughter in Evanston. 



Frank Anderson, floor man for the 



Farmers National Grain Corporation 

 for many years, also has been employed 

 by Illinois Grain Corporation, Presi- 

 dent Arthur E. Burwash announced. 

 Mr. Anderson, one of the oldest floor 

 men at the Chicago grain exchange in 

 point of service, is well known to ele- 

 vator managers and officials through- 

 out Illinois. 



Women Manage Elevators 



And now women are demonstrating that 

 they can manage grain elevators as well as 

 homes and husbands. Anna M. Shields is 

 the manager of the Shields Cooperative Ele- 

 vator Company at Benson. Mrs. Shields 

 operated as an individually owned company 

 before assisting in reorganizing as a co-op. 



Mrs. Elsie B. Hedcen, wife of Henry B. 



Hecken, genial manager at Gibson City, 

 manages the Guthrie Farmers Elevator Com- 

 pany, four or five miles away. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Hecken have operated these two co- 

 operatives for several years. 



LIVESTOCK 



Says Hans Heit 



Douglas County — 



"I support cooperative livestock mar- 

 keting because I feel that our firm 

 works for my interest and tries to ob- 

 tain the best price possible for my 

 stock. When other firms sell hogs to 

 packers without a price, merely at the 

 price that our cooperatives, the Pro- 



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ducers receive, I feel that the Producers 

 sell lots of hogs for which the other 

 fellow collects the commission. People 

 selling to other firms have told me 

 the above." 



Proud of Our Co-ops 



My reason for selling my livestock 

 through the Prc^kicers is because it is 

 our own set-up and that I know that I 

 am dealing with my own people the 

 whole way through and that I am guar- 

 anteed 100% satisfaction. I am really 

 proud of our wonderful cooperatives. 



I think we will be able to get more 

 of the farmers livestock when they get 

 better acquainted with the facts. They 

 are being misled by dishonest stock 

 traders. The way to get more business 

 is to get some truckman that does not 

 deal in livestock for his individual 

 profit. 



We spent several years in William- 

 son County trying to get a trucker that 

 did not deal or buy and sell stock. 

 Finally about two months ago we got 

 such a man and a good honest one. 

 He agreed and we put one of our pro- 

 ducers' signs on his truck. So we are 

 getting a lot more business. 



A. M. Spitznass, Williamson county. 



CREAM 



When Hancock county doubled its 



volume of cream between March 1 

 and April 30, the Producers Creamery 

 of Mt. Sterling celebrated. More than 

 275 patrons and their families attended 

 the party at Mallard Hall, May 6, where 

 Madam Oleomargarine was tried and 

 sentenced to die. 



The trial was enacted by members of 

 the Mallard Community Club. Their 

 lines were written by RoUo Ash, Pro- 

 ducers fieldman, and others. 



Cream volume in Hancock county 

 swelled from 6800 pounds of fat in 

 February to 11,275 in March and to 

 14,400 pounds in April. The May goal 

 is 20,000 pounds. Other county teams 

 in the Mt. Sterling district are striving 



to equal Hancock's record. Meanwhile, 

 equipment at the plant is being taxed 

 to handle the increase. 



Manager Ted Hafer reports the volume dur- 

 ing the first week in May was 2,000 pounds 

 more than the first week in April. 



"Here is a record of which we are 



proud. The five Gregory brothers — 

 Aaron, George, Arthur, Irvin and 

 Owen — are all Wayne county farmers. 

 Each one sends his cream regularly to 

 the Producers Creamery of Olney. They 

 like the cooperative plan and are for it 

 100 per cent," says C. W. Simpson, 

 PCO manager. j 



April volume of cream coming to 

 the Producers Creamery of Olney from 

 Richland county was up 26 per cent 

 over the same month a year ago. Sec- 

 ond highest percentages of gain were 

 reported in Wabash and Edwards coun- 

 ties. 



Three thousattd people passed through the 

 Producers Cooperative Dairy at Quincy dur- 

 ing their recent open house, reports Mrs. 

 Laura Johnston, manager. The plant has 

 been entirely modernized and remodeled, 

 and several thousand dollars worth of new 

 equipment installed. 



A special meeting of the 23 member 



cooperatives of the Illinois Milk Produc- 

 ers' Association will be held Friday, June 

 3 in the offices of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. Three new directors 

 will be elected, namely, H. W. Mainland, 

 Rockford ; O. H. Ryan, LaSalle-Peru and 

 D. H. Radford, Kewanee. Mr. Main- 

 land will replace W. E. Sawdcy and Mr. 

 Ryan will replace Alex McPhedran. 



Milk price reductions have been made to 



members of the Pure Milk Association, 

 Peoria Milk Producers Association, Sani- 

 tary Milk Producers Association, McLean 

 County Milk Producers Association, Dan- 

 ville Producers Dairy and Decatur Milk 

 Association, during the past month upon 

 prices received for milk going into bottles. 

 On several of these markets the reduction 

 has come about through the decline in 

 the price of condensed -milk upon which the 



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