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GRAIN 



Dr. L. J. Norton of the College of 



Agriculture addressed the recent annual 

 meeting of the Farmers Grain Comj>any 

 of Dorans (Coles county), an all day 

 afiFair with a luncheon at noon. The 

 company had a good year in mer- 

 chandising side lines as well as grain 

 products. Andrew Homann, the genial 

 manager writes, "We are still march- 

 ing on." 



O. M. Kornmeyer, manager at Pen- 

 field (Champaign county), states that 

 his grain operations for several inonths 

 ■consisted largely of selling back to the 

 livestock feeders of the community, the 

 corn sold to his compan](. 



■ ' The lowly soybean ha$ made a phe- 



norpinal advance in procfuction and use 

 •dmirj&the last ten or fifteen years. In 

 addiaSh-'"to the soybean processing 

 , plants, already- located in central Illi- 

 nois;- an old established grain firm is 

 _buildin^a_l8rge plant at Decatur. Swift 

 ^^^"and^ojftpany yfho built a new plant 

 at Chanrfiaign a year ago is enlarging 

 the storage capacity by several bins. 



> Eugene Hoerner is the new manager 

 \ ik Ludlow in Champaign county. Mr. 

 Hoerner came from near Graymont, in 

 Livingston county. He received his early 

 training in GraympntHEooperatiye As- 

 sociation under the direction of Mr. 

 Scheeler, the present manager. 



At the lAA 19th district conference 

 in Decfatur the latter part of February, 

 all counties of the district were rep- 

 resented. A full and thorough discus- 

 sion of the grain marketing program 

 featured the meeting. Eugene Curtis 

 of Champaign is director of this dis- 

 trict. 



Ernest LaMay, manager of Monica Eleva- 

 tor Company (Peoria county), not only 

 keeps busy in the matter of handling grain, 

 but has a complete stock of sidelines. The 

 company is the cooperative farm implement 

 dealer for the community. Chas. Buck is 

 president. . , 



Seven surplus grain producing counties, 

 namely, Lee, LaSalle, Livingston, Ford, 

 Woodford, McLean and Tazewell, were 

 represented by their farm advisers and grain 

 marketing committees at a meeting held in 

 Pontiac, February 28. A detailed study of 

 marketing conditions in the counties repre- 

 sented was made. The group was enthu- 

 siastic in pledging renewed effort to ad- 

 vance cooperative grain marketing. 



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A joint meeting of directors and mana- 

 gers of farmer elevators in Knox county 

 and^ directors of the Farm Bureau, was 

 recently held in Galesburg. Frank Haines, 

 manager of Illinois Grain Corporation and 

 Harrison Fahrnkopf, lAA grain marketing 

 director attended the meeting. This county 

 has always taken an active interest in co- 

 operative grain marketing work. 



On March I, Richard Phalen took up his 



new duties as manager of the Sublette 

 Farmers Elevator Company in Lee county. 



TRUE OR FALSE.' Although a farm- 

 er has a good strong cooperative eleva- 

 tor at his local station, it pays to shop 

 around before selling his grain; maybe 

 the other fellow will pay a quarter of 

 a cent more. 



It was with a great regret that friends 



learned of the sudden death of Richard 

 Steging, who for several years had been 

 manager of Havana Cooperative Grain 

 Company in Mason County. Reports are 

 that Oscar Athey, assistant to Mr. Steging, 

 is assuming the duties of manager. 



The twentieth annual meeting of the Al- 

 hambra Grain and Feed Company in Madi- 

 son County was held recently. Manager 

 E. S. Apple presented the auditor's report 

 which showed the company to be in good 

 financial condition, with a substantial net 

 gain for the year. 



At noon a turkey dinner was served to 

 approximately 100 patrons. The turkeys 

 were fed on Blue Seal feeds. 



Prof. Simerl of the Univ. of Illinois, Ray 

 Amraon of the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany, and T. W. May, farm adviser, were 

 the speakers. 



Pres. Wm. Eheitz presided. 



Local and terminal cooperative grain mar- 

 keting problems were discussed at a meet- 

 ing in Macon County recently. The meet- 

 ing revealed that there are 2J grain ship- 

 ping points in the county. Both farmers 

 and grain handlers in attendance agreed that 

 there is no dearth of local facilities in this 

 small county. 



Two-hundred fourteen rail decks of 



livestock were shipped in 1938 by the 

 Stronghurst Shipping Association, 140 

 of which were consigned to the Chi- 

 cago Producers. Total market value 

 of livestock handled was $289,634.98. 

 Net to shippers was |272, 566.22. Presi- 

 dent Joe Ross and Manager Clarence 

 "Buck" Hartquist officiated at the an- 

 nual meeting and dinner attended by 

 225 members and friends. Walter 

 Howe of Chicago Producers and R. 

 B. Stewart of Santa Fe R. R. were the 

 principal speakers. 



Freeport Livestock Shipping Associa- 

 tion, under a reorganized plan of op- 

 eration adopted in 1937 and the new 

 management of Clarence Meek, showed 

 continued growth during 1938 with 

 a total of 135 carloads shipped aggre- 

 gating over $180,000 in value. Man- 

 ager Meek reports 19 carloads con- 

 signed during January 1939- 



Milo Miller, chairman of Tazewell 



County Livestock Marketing Commit- 

 tee, topp^3~^he Peoria hog market 

 February 24th with 13 head of Hamp- 

 shire-Durocs averaging 210 pounds at 

 5 1/2 months old. The consignment 

 brought $8.35 and was sold by the 

 Peoria Producers. 



Farm Adviser Wayne Gilbert of Stark 

 County reports that Conway's Summary 

 and Forecast — the National Live Stock 

 bi-weekly market service — is read about 

 the most of any publication on the bulletin 

 rack in the Farm Bureau office lobby. 

 Similar testimonials are coming in from 

 numerous other counties. 



Fifty-five Fulton county livestock market- 

 ing leaders tore into fifty-five T-bone steaks, 

 also discussed the county's five million dollar 

 livestock business, the evening of March 

 first at the Spoon River Hotel, Lewistown. 

 Lee Harris presided. Oscar Brissenden of 

 lAA forcefully propounded the principles 

 of farm cooperation. Messrs. Hall of Illi- 

 nois Livestock and Herrmann and Worley 

 of Peoria Producers also took part in the 

 program. A comprehensive project sched- 

 ule for 1939 was adopted: 



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