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GRAIN 



Leo Drew is the new manager of 



Walton Co-Operative Company in Lee 

 county. This elevator recently became 

 a member of Illinois Grain Corpora- 

 tion. 



The local elevator manager may not 

 be imposed upon, but he certainly does 

 a lot of work which might properly 

 be classed as "extra" for many of the 

 jobs of grain he handles. There are 

 landlord and tenant divisions to be 

 made. Grain fed must be properly ac- 

 counted for, grain kept out for seed, 

 and cash rent, advances on grain and 

 other loans, including sealed grain, 

 must not be overlooked. The man who 

 shells, threshes or combines expects his 

 charge to be deducted. The truckers, 

 of course, don't settle after every load, 

 but they do climb off after the last 

 load has been delivered and expect 

 payment "right now." Then there are 

 the charge accounts — • salt, coal, lum- 

 ber, feeds, etc., — all in the day's 

 work. As one manager recently said, 

 "It's getting so we have to do the 

 bookkeeping for a lot of these fellows." 



George C. Martin, who for the past four 

 years has been manager of the Ottawa Co- 

 operative Grain Company recently resigned 

 to become Marketing Specialist for the 

 Agricultural Adjustment Administration. He 

 expects to work on the flour export program. 



"We may find it necessary to change 



the time of year for our audit," joking- 

 ly remarked President Dean of the 

 Rushville Farmers Grain and Livestock 

 Company as he sat in the new air- 

 conditioned office of the company dur- 

 ing hot September weather when Aud- 

 itor Chilson of the Cooperative Audit- 

 ing Association was there at work. 

 "Other people as well as auditors find 

 this office a comfortable place to visit." 

 The company recently enlarged and 

 repaired its feed hou.se also. William 

 Eifert is manager. 



Many elevator communities in South- 

 ern Illinois have a fine crop of red 



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clover seed. Where the elevators have 

 the equipment, the cleaning facilities 

 are being worked overtime in handling 

 this seed. 



C. E. Holtkamp was recently employed by 

 Columbia Farmers Cooperative Grain Com- 

 pany to operate the house of this company 

 at Prairie du Rocher in Randolph county. 

 L. R. Downs is the manager of the company 

 which operates at both Columbia and the 

 above named station. 



Paul Ehrlich at LaPIace is a busy raatuger. 

 He looks after the elevators at Casner and 

 Burrowsville in addition to the home stand. 



LIVESTOCK 



Walter Mather, Menard county cattle 



feeder says: "I buy and sell cattle where 

 I get good service and that's the Pro- 

 ducers." Mr. Mather's record reads 

 100% in Farm Bureau and marketing 

 work. 



Roy Burrus, president of Morgan 



County Farm Bureau announces that 

 on September 29, the Farm Bureau 

 board of directors will call a special 

 meeting to study their livestock market- 

 ing problems and make recommenda- 

 tions. 



The Bushnell Producers handled 



42.3% of the hogs on that market for 

 the month of August. First full month 

 that the Bushnell Producers operated 

 was June. For this month they handled 

 28% of the volume for the month of 

 July 38%. There are three other com- 

 mission firms at Bushnell. 



In the state wool pool contest, Glenn 



Martin, Livingston county, won first 

 prize, a virgin wool blanket. Wayne 

 Leinbach of Henderson county won 

 second prize, a $5.00 hat and Homer 

 Upton of Champaign county won third 

 prize, a wool sport sweater. The win- 

 ners secured the largest percentage of 

 wool produced in the counties and mar- 

 keted through the state wool pool. The 

 percentages are: Livingston county, 

 39.7% ; Henderson county, 30.6% ; 

 Champaign county, 22.4%. 



The 64 Livestock Outlook Meetings 



are well under way. The first half 

 dozen meetings had an average attend- 

 ance of about 75. These meetings will 

 continue through September and dur- 

 ing the first week of October. They 

 are sponsored by the Illinois Livestock 

 Marketing Association. 



Fulk recently returned to his duties 



after a period of illness as active man- 

 ager of the Decatur unit of the Illinois 

 Livestock Marketing Association. Up- 

 on Mr. Fulk's return, the board of 

 directors voted to start buying hogs 

 as the Bloomington and Danville units 

 are doing starting September 5th. 



A feedlot tour gave William H. 

 Hummermeier of Stephenson county 

 his first close contact with cooperative 

 livestock marketing. He says he was 

 so well pleased with the practical way 

 Goodman Story of the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers explained the grading and mar- 

 keting angles on that tour several years 

 ago, that he has been shipping to the 

 Producers ever since. Will's shipments 

 of cattle and hogs aggregate about 30 

 carloads a year. 



Prices for 3.5% milk on leading mar- 

 kets in July were: New York — (Dairy- 

 men's League) $1.23 per cwt., 201- 

 210 mjle zone. Chicago — (Pure Milk 

 Association) $1,533 net f.o.b. country 

 plants. Minneapolis - St. Paul — (Twin 

 City Milk Producers) $1.43 f.o.b. 

 dealers' plants. St. Louis — (Sanitary 

 Milk Producers) $1.62 f.o.b. country 

 plants or $1.82 f.o.b. St. Louis. Indi- 

 anapolis — $1.65 per cwt. f.o.b. dealers' 

 plants. Kansas City — (Pure Milk Pro- 

 ducers) Base milk $2.03. Excess $1.12. 

 Detroit — (Michigan Milk Producers) 

 Base milk $1.58. Excess $1.26. 



Illinois cash farm income from milk 



in 1937 was $78,305,000. In 1937 the 

 U. S. cash income to farmers for milk 

 was $1,530,000,000 while in 1932 it 

 was only $991,000,000. Every year 

 since 1932 the U. S. cash farm income 

 from milk has increased. 



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