Jersey, often helped her brother and her 

 father with their sheep. Gladys, who 

 lives in California with ner daughter and 

 husband, liked sheep, too. 



"Then there was Petronel, our young- 

 est one. She was a real showman. She 

 was in the 4-H Club, had her own sheep 

 which she showed at the State Fair. She 

 won prizes in 4-H work for a demonstra- 

 tion on fitting and showing. She's only 

 22. She loves the farm. She has a job 

 in a tea room north of Chicago but she 

 comes home every time she has a day off," 

 Sam said. 



C. A. Brewer, serving his ninth term 

 in the Illinois legislature as a representa- 

 tive, too, endorses cooperative wool mar- 

 keting. Said he: 



"Take it one year with another, you 

 come nearer to getting full value for your 

 wool by marketing it cooperatively than 

 by any other way. I remember one time 

 we shipped our wool to a firm in St. 

 Louis. They reported that it was burry. 

 We haven't had a bur on this farm for 

 years and there was certainly none in 

 the wool. We had nothing to do but 

 take what they would give us. Other 

 times we were short weighted when we 

 shipped wool. 



"The national cooperative is in a better 

 position to know the value of wool than 

 the grower. Then, too, they can sort it 

 and get better prices for the best of it. 

 We only sell what we have just as it 

 comes from the sheep." 



The Livingston county shearing ring, 

 going into its sixth year, has this im- 

 pressive record. 



Year 



1954 

 1935 

 1936 

 1937 

 1938 



So considered from all angles, wool 

 gathering as it is done in Livingston 

 county is anything but a day-dream. It's 

 another Farm Bureau service. It pays 

 its way and pays members a profit. And 

 the way the Farm Bureau gathers wool 

 would make any farmer want to keep 

 sheep. — Larry Potter. 



GLENN MARTIN AND HELPER 

 The? handle sheep and wool for pool 

 patrons. Trailer is the Farm Bureau's. 



CHAMPION WOOL POOLERS 



Last year, Livingston county led all others in cooperative wool marketing with 39.7 

 per cent of the county's production handled the co-op way. One of the reasons lot 

 the high percentage was the shearing crew. Left to right, they are Glenn Martin, pool 

 manager; Donald Bressner, who picked up the wool as it was sheared; Chris Prickett oi 

 Aurora, shearer; and Ray Gardner, assistant. They handled 3675 fleeces weighing 

 24,443 pounds from 295 flocks. The task was finished on lune 9 when a iull carload woa 

 shipped to the central cooperative warehouse in Indianapolis. 



McHenry County members of township 



livestock marketing committees receive a 

 monthly news letter from the Farm Bureau 

 office dealing with progress, plans and point- 

 ers pertaining to cooperative livestock mar- 

 keting. County Chairman Ralph Dodge and 

 Farm Adviser "Jack" Brock are instigators 

 of the idea. i. 



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Spring cattle survey meetings sponsored by 



the Chicago Producers each year in coopera- 

 tion with I.A.A. and Farm Bureaus started 

 April 13 in Will County. Other April 

 meetings were held in Ford, Iroquois, Kane, 

 Warren, Grundy, LaSalle, Knox, Winnebago, 

 Bureau, Lee, Woodford, Rock Island, Mar- 

 shall-Putnam, Livingston, DeKalb, McLean, 

 Henderson, Whiteside, Hancock and Taze- 

 well counties. May dates include Ogle 

 County May 1, Fulton May 2, Stark May }, 

 Sangamon and Mercer May 4, Stephenson, 

 Carroll, Champaign and Henry May 5, Peoria 

 May 8, Macon May 9, McDonough County, 

 and McHenry. Lake, Boone and Cook in a 

 joint meeting at Woodstock May 12, Ver- 

 milion May 19. 



Market lamb shows for 4-H Club exhibi- 

 tors of fat lambs are scheduled at the Inter- 

 national Amphitheatre, Union Stock Yards, 

 Chicago, June 20 and 21, and at Union 

 Stock Yards, Peoria, June 22. The Chica- 

 go and the Peoria Producers, respectively, 

 will give special attention to consignments 

 and to visitors to these junior events. 



Direaor William F. Sandrock of Illinois 



Livestock Marketing Association is entitled 

 to our apology for omission of his name 

 from those printed under the picture of the 

 Association's Board of Directors in the April 

 Record. 



Swine Feeders Day at the University of 

 Illinois drew upwards of a thousand hog 

 producers and marketing organizations repre- 

 sentatives on April 14. Keen attention was 

 commanded by the program contributions of 

 Homer Davison of the Institute of Ameri- 

 can Meat Packers; W. S. Clithero, Vice 

 President of Armour and Co., and W. 'T. 

 Reneker, head hog buyer of Swift & Co., 

 who discussed some of the problems of pack- 

 ers. 



Elmer Vietmeier of Ogle County is aoothet 



Farm Bureau President who progressed to 

 that responsible position by way of the 

 chairmanship of the County Livestock Mar- 

 keting Committee. 



Much of the time of Fieldman Kenneth 



C. Shields, has been spent recently in build- 

 ing a new cream route in northern Rock 

 Island County. The route is part of the 

 program agreed upon by the Dairy Market- 

 ing Committee of the Rock Island County 

 Farm Bureau, to further the cooperative 

 marketing of cream and milk in the county. 

 New patrons are being added every week. 



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