MORE MONEY FOR 



GRAIN 



At the annual meeting of sharehold- 

 ers of the Nokomis Equity Elevator 

 Company there was speaking, entertain- 

 ment, community singing and a lunch- 

 eon in addition to business. The Old 

 Gray Mare Band furnished lively music. 

 Manager Roy Phillips believes that 

 members of a cooperative should play 

 as well as work. President LeRoy Mel- 

 ton of the National Equity Union was 

 principal speaker. The company showed 

 a good net earning for the year. 



The Steward Cooperative Grain 



Company at its annual stockholders 

 meeting had favorable reports and an 

 excellent dinner. Organized only five 

 i years ago, the company has made ex- 

 cellent progress under able manage- 

 ment and a wide-a-wake board of di- 

 rectors. A total of 460,000 bushels of 

 grain was handled. C. V. Hermann is 

 the manager. 



During the grain marketing confer- 

 ence at the lAA convention. Farm Ad- 

 viser C. E. Yale of Lee County des- 

 cribed how the Farm Bureau had helped 

 local elevators by providing leadership 

 to bring patrons and shareholders to- 

 gether in both work and play. Re- 

 newed interest and enthusiasm for the 

 cooperative was the result. 



TRUE OR FALSE — A chain is as 



strong as its weakest link; an elevator 

 is as strong as its sleep'n'est board 

 member. 



White Hall Cooperative Elevator 

 Company in Greene county reported a 

 good year at its recent annual meeting. 

 There was no change in the board of 

 directors. R. L. Davis is the manager. 



At the annual meeting of the Carroll- 

 ton Farmers Elevator Company, Robert 

 T. Black and N. J. Kirback were re- 

 elected to the board of directors. These 

 men have served for many years. The 

 company, under the management of 

 Floyd Howard, had an excellent year, 



showing a net profit of approximately 

 |8,200. 



TRUE OR FALSE — Farmer elevators 



were organized many years ago because of 

 the wide margins taken by "line" houses 

 and other local handlers; the farmers Ele- 

 vator is not needed today because it pays 

 no more for grain than the "other fellow." 



Several hundred men and women at- 

 tended the annual meeting of Farmers 

 Elevator and Supply Company, Morri- 

 son on February 16. Manager Al 

 Bendtschneider gave an excellent re- 

 port of the transactions of the past 

 year. The company is one of the strong- 

 est organizations in the state. It was 

 started by the Whiteside County Farm 

 Bureau twenty years ago and the pres- 

 ent manager has been with the com- 

 pany the entire period. R. A. Norrish, 

 president, in his report recalled the 

 early history of the company. Frank 

 Shuman, farm adviser, reviewed the co- 

 operative movement as applied to 

 Whiteside county. Reverend M. I. 

 Johnson of Kankakee gave the princi- 

 pal address. 



LIVESTOCK 



Bloomington Producers Cooperative 



stockyard, at their annual meeting Feb- 

 ruary 11, reported a gain of 50.1 per 

 cent in volume of business for 1938 

 over 1937. Total sales of livestock, 

 feed and supplies aggregated over three 

 quarters of a million dollars last year. 

 Carl Lage is president, Louis Hen- 

 ninger, manager. 



Knox County Cooperatives held an 



all-day joint conference February 6 for 

 a thorough discussion of marketing 

 problems, with Professors Norton and 

 Ashby of the Agricultural Economics 

 Department, University of Illinois, as 

 discussion leaders. The morning ses- 

 sion was devoted to fundamental prin- 

 ciples and organization methods. In 

 the afternoon, Professor Ashby con- 

 ducted a panel discussion on "What 

 Can Cooperatives Do to Straighten out 

 the Present Chaos in Livestock Mar- 

 keting." 



Virus Gustafson, newly appointed 



chairman of the Marshall-Putnam Live- 

 stock Marketing Committee, thinks that 

 the difference between 60 per cent 

 Farm Bureau membership and 34 per 

 cent of livestock marketed cooperative- 

 ly from those two counties is a chal- 

 lenge to his committee and its constit- 

 uents. The committeemen expressed 

 their concurrence by adopting a vig- 

 orous schedule of work for 1939. 



Ralph G. "Fat" Finney, young Macoupin 



county cattle feeder, bought a carload of 

 high quality Hereford steers from Texas 

 through the St. Louis Producers early in 

 October. They averaged 445 pounds and 

 cost $9.20 per cwt. at the feedlot. Says 

 Finney: "You can depend on Lee Divine 

 to get the right kind and do a good job 

 of selling them when they're fat. I believe 

 a feeder is fooling himself when he feeds 

 the common kind. These cattle have done 

 fine on rough feed. They're getting their 

 first bright alfalfa now. I plan to feed 'em 

 on grass this summer for the early Septem- 

 ber market. If the corn price stays where 

 it is I won't lose even on an $8 market." 



Illinois farmers marketed livestock 



totaling 29,117 carloads through co- 

 operative sales agencies in 1938, an in- 

 crease of 1862 cars or 6.8 per cent over 

 1937. 



McLean county ranked first in vol- 

 ume of livestock marketed coopera- 

 tively in 1938 with 1205 carloads. Next 

 were: Sangamon, Henry, La Salle, De- 

 Kalb, Peoria, Fulton, Knox, Bureau 

 and Champaign counties. 



Numerous meetings have been held 



lately by Illinois Milk Producers' Asso- 

 ciation representatives and others to 

 study a proposed State Milk Control 

 Bill. A meeting of all these groups 

 is scheduled for March 2 in the lAA 

 office to consider a redraft of the Bill. 



Store milk prices in the St. Louis 



area have been reduced lately, reports 

 A. D. Lynch, manager of Sanitary 

 Milk Producers. Two large dairies are 

 selling half gallon containers at a price 

 which will permit resale to the retail 



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