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Said H. C. "Hank" Morel, manager of the 

 Cooperative Grain and Supply Company of 

 Serena, LaSalle county, when he visited 

 offices of Illinois Grain Corporation April 

 14: "Many fields in our section that would 

 have been sown to oats will be planted to 

 soybeans due to the late season. The recent 

 cold spell caught our early-sown oats in a 

 critical stage. Some fields will have to be 

 replanted or sown to something else." 



Illioois wheat belt farmers have just a 

 many grain marketing problems as Iheir 

 neighbors in the corn belt, it was brought 

 out recently in a grain marketing discussion 

 with Farm Adviser Thurman Wright and 

 directors of the White County Farm Bureau. 



When calling at thelffice of the Kewanee 

 Farmers Elevator Company in Henry County, 

 recently we found Auditor Chilson of the 

 Illinois Agriculture Auditing Association 

 making a semi-annual audit. "Being audited 

 twice a year is a good policy for any 

 company," says F. R. Martin, manager. 



Owning a share of stock in a cooperative 

 elevator that handles his grain and stocks 

 his supplies is a business-like way for a 

 farmer to provide himself with a marketing 

 machine. While all of the machine is avail- 

 able at all times, his investment, representing 

 but a very small fraction of the cost of that 

 machine, is negligible. 



Adviser Kemp of Knox County states that 

 the trend in his territory is toward fewer 

 farmer elevators. Formerly there were nine 

 companies operating in the county. Today 

 there are four. 



"Out of Debt" is a term the Assumption 



Cooperative Grain Company, Christian 

 county, is learning to use with a great deal 

 of pleasure. Unusual progress has been 

 made by this company which started loading 



train with a scoop shovel a little less than 

 ve years ago. Later a new elevator was 

 built. Carl Simcox is manager and J. W. Van 

 Syckel is president. 



When Eugene Hoerner, bookkeeper and 

 assistant manager of the Graymount Coop- 

 erative Association, recently became man- 

 ager of the Ludlow Elevator Companv. 

 Champaign county, he was succeeded at 

 Graymount by Eldon Zimmerman. 



Alfred J. and E. E. Johnson, brothers, re- 

 cently succeeded their father, the late S. T. 

 Johnson, in the management of the Farmers 

 Cooperative Grain and Supply Company of 

 Lisbon Center in Kendall county. 



Wm. Weidner, manager of Cissna Park 



Cooperative Grain and Coal Company, 

 Iroquois county, says that during the spring 

 season, the busiest spot on his premises is 

 the new crib. It was built a year or more 

 ago and is headquarters for grinding opera- 

 tions. 



C. E. Johnson, manager of Culver Farm- 

 ers Cooperative Company, Menard county, 

 and Mrs. Johnson can rightfully feel proud 

 that their four grown children are either 

 students at, or graduates of, the University 

 of Illinois. A youngster in the grades is 

 headed that way. 



Roy H. Roll, Agricultural Adviser in 



Gallatin County, reports an excellent early 

 season crop outlook. 



J. H. Butterfield, active shareholder of the 

 Rosamond Farmers Cooperative Associaton, 



Christian County, spent the winter in South 

 America. 



A. E. Saline, manager at Victoria Farm- 

 ers Elevator, Knox county, reports a heavy 

 grinding business this season. 



TRUE or FALSE? The farmer who had 

 a hundred dollar share of stock in his local 

 farmer elevator and who maintains that it 

 entitles him to one hundred dollars credit 

 at all times is a desirable stockholder. 



Shareholders of the Jersey County Grain 

 Association recently held an interesting and 

 enthusiastic annual meeting. Manager 

 "Herb" Neely reported a net earning of 

 $10,185.37 for the operation of a little less 

 than a year. The company handles grain and 

 sidelines at Jerseyville and McClosky. F. W. 

 Breitweiser assistant to Mr. Neely, manages 

 the McClosky point. Dick Voorhees is pres- 

 ident of the company. 



LIVESTOCK 



Piatt, Iroquois and Livingston coun- 

 ties held successful field days on March 

 10, 16 and 17. Next came Carroll, Rock 

 Island and DuPage. LaSalle, Ford, War- 

 ren, Knox, Henderson, Logan and 

 Tazewell, held tours in April. Mercer, 

 Henry, Marshall-Putnam, McLean and 

 Grundy are scheduled an May 4, 5, 25 

 and 26 (the last two also having the 

 same date.) 



Lauren T. Anderson, 63, manager of the 

 Lovington Shipping Association, Moultrie 

 county, died suddenly of a heart ailment at 

 his home April 3- 



The 1939 schedule of G)unty Feed- 

 lot Tours started off March 9 with 

 Champaign County leading the pro- 

 cession. County Committee Chairman 

 Cecil Rayburn and Farm Adviser Ed 

 Harris mustered some 80 feeders to in- 

 spect about 200 cattle, 700 hogs and 

 700 sheep on farms of five leading 

 feeders. Ben Duke and "Jim" James of 

 Chicago Producers, E. T. Robbins of 

 the University Extension Service and 

 Louis Hall of LA.A. led the feedlot 

 and luncheon discussions. 



Dennis Hocking, teacher of vocation- 

 al agriculture, Chrisman High School, 

 has just completed a series of ten night 

 meetings for farmers. Two of the ten 

 meetings were devoted to cooperative 

 livestock marketing. Scott Meiks, 

 manager of the Indianapolis Producers 

 and S. T. Simpson of the Illinois Live- 

 stock Marketing Association, were 

 speakers. 



Knox-Warren Livestock Assn. — "During 

 the first three months of 1939 we have shipped 

 51 decks of livestock which compares with 

 36 decks for the first three months of 1938," 

 reports Paul McQueen, Mgr. "This is an 

 increase of 39%. Prospects are for a sub- 

 stantial increase in shipments for the entire 

 year of 1939. Our pick-up service is prov- 

 ing convenient, satisfactory and economical." 



A new plan for contacting livestock feeders 



throughout the county has been adopted by 

 the Peoria County Livestock Marketing Com- 

 mittee in cooperation with the Peorili Pro- 

 ducers. Chairman Howard McDonald and 

 his six committeemen have divided the 

 county into seven districts. In each the 

 member living in that district lays out a 

 series of field trips on which he rides with 

 a Producer salesman assigned on designated 

 days by Manager Hembrough. Surprisingly 

 effective results have been reported from 

 this systematic method of covering the 

 county. . 



Henry County's livestock committee has 



scheduled a series of bi-monthly meetings 

 during 1939. All township project leaders 

 and Farm Bureau directors will be invited 

 to participate in the discussion of a definite 

 topic at each meeting. 



Lake County's Chairman Clarence Snetz- 

 inger recently received $14.70 for a veal 

 calf shipped to the Chicago Producers for 

 which local buyers' best bid was $9. 



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