5 MARKETING 



MORE MONEY FOR 



GRAIN 



The Tuscola Cooperative Grain 



Company recently closed another suc- 

 cessful year. At the annual meeting 

 one new director, Tony Hausmann was 

 elected. J. Fred Romine, director on 

 the board of Illinois Grain Coopera- 

 tion, who assisted in organizing the 

 Tuscola Elevator in 1930 and has 

 served on the Board since that time, 

 was re-elected. G. L. Potter of Gray- 

 mont addressed the meeting. Harry 

 Carrell is manager of the company. 



At the annual meeting of the Pontiac 



Farmers Grain Company, September 

 24, all directors whose terms expired 

 were re-elected. The company had a 

 good year. E. P. Benscoter is the 

 manager. 



ing. All outgoing directors were re- 

 elected. Paul Ehrlich, in his annual 

 report gave a resume of the progress 

 of the organization the last four years, 

 during which time $11,106 of the in- 

 debtedness of the company was paid. 



Flour used by Italians will be ground 



20 per cent coarser to make more bulk. 

 Italy its trying to stretch her sparse 

 wheat crop, hold imports at a mini- 

 mum. 



California farmers spent $3,500,000 



last year to advertise their products. 



LIVESTOCK 



The LaPIace Cooperative Grain 

 Company recently held its annual meet- 



George Knoles of Mason county says, 

 "I support the cooperative marketing 

 of livestock because I feel that I am a 

 part of the organization and they are 

 working for my interest on each and 

 every animal consigned to them. Why 

 more farmers don't market cooperative- 



What Industry Makes of a Bushel of Corn 



ly is too deep for me. Seems like they 

 can't get weaned away from the old 

 line firms." 



J. Wes Smith, chairman of the Pike 

 County Livestock Marketing Committee 

 comments — "1 believe cooperative mar- 

 keting has improved selling conditions on 

 the terminal markets. Farmers get better 

 service, pay reduced commission and get 

 valuable information on prices and trends. 

 If we farmers ever have anything to say 

 relative to the establishment of livestock 

 prices on "cost plus a reasonable profit" 

 oasis along with other lines of business, 

 it will be when a larger percentage of the 

 total volume of livestock sold on competi- 

 tive markets goes through cooperative chan- 

 nels." 



On recent swine tours it was too late 



to see the spring pigs at some demon- 

 stration farms because they already had 

 been sold. Gerald Smith, La Salle 

 County, raised 171 March pigs, aver- 

 aging 9.25 pigs per litter and sold them 

 at 5 1/2 months of age averaging just 

 200 pounds. They had been self-fed 

 shelled corn and a mixture of tankage 

 and soybean meal, 2:1, on clover pas- 

 ture. These were sanitation pigs and 

 had no runts among them. His 135 

 fall pigs average 8.5 pigs a litter and 

 will be fed the same way with the ad- 

 dition of alfalfa hay when pasture fails. 

 E. T. Robbins, livestock extension spe- 

 cialist, says he has seen hundreds of 

 young sanitation hogs lately with no 

 runts in any of the herds. 



Other farms visited on the above 

 tour were H. T. Marshall & Son, J. 

 N. Clifford & Son, Wm. Temple and 

 Passow & Son. William "Temple, 

 chairman, and Gerald Smith are mem- 

 bers of the La Salle County Livestock 

 Marketing Committee. 



F. E. Eggenberger, chairman of the Ford 

 County Livestock Marketing Committee re- 

 ports that Farm Bureau folks featured bet- 

 ter feeding and organized marketing of 

 livestock at a big entertainment and ban- 

 quet in the Melvin High School, September 

 29. Professor Snapp of the University of 

 Illinois, Manager Dave Swanson of the 

 Chicago Producers and Louis Hall of the 

 lAA were the speakers. U. S. Choice Graded 

 Beef selected by Walter Howe of the Chi- 

 cago Producers was the main "piece de 

 resistance." , 



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