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The Summerfield Cooperative Association 

 in St. Clair County has installed a new 

 seed cleaner. The management hopes to be 

 able to improve the wheat handled over it to 

 the extent that it will be profitable both 

 to the company and the customers. 



Farm advisers and grain committeemen 

 from seven counties in the St. Louis ter- 

 ritory, recently met at Edwardsville and 

 discussed problems of cooperative grain mar- 

 keting in that section. Farm Bureau leaders 

 are realizing more and more that grain 

 marketing is closely linked, not only to 

 the local cooperative, but to the farm or- 

 ganization, as well. 



The Ford County Farm Bureau recently 

 sponsored a county-wide grain marketing 

 meeting which was well attended by farm- 

 * ers' elevator representatives. This county 

 meeting was the culmination of a series 

 of local grain meetings in Ford county. 

 G. E. Metzger was principal speaker. 



The Ludlow Elevator Company Cham- 

 paign County is making repairs and im- 

 provements on its house, which involves 

 removing and rebuilding one of the two 

 legs. 



"I can't fool with truckers; their trucks 

 clutter up the drive and they consume time 

 which belongs to our local customers". 

 Thus, spoke Floyd Howard, busy and ef- 

 ficient manager of Carrollton Farmers Ele- 

 vator Company. 



A recent visit to the office of Greenfield 

 Farmers Cooperative Grain Company, Greene 

 county, found the manager, George Cole, 

 not only busy handling customers and 

 routine business but swamped with spring 

 house-cleaning. Manager Cole chuckled 

 when he remarked that the bookkeeper. 

 Miss Maythel Arnold was away on vacation 

 and since it is always difficult for both, 

 to agree on decorations, he decided to have 

 the office cleaned and redecorated while 

 she was away. 



A county-wide meeting of community 

 leaders was recently held in the interest of 

 cooperative grain marketing under the dir- 

 ection of the Menard County Farm Bureau. 

 Although not a large county, Menard grows 

 and ships out a big volume of grain an- 

 nually. 



The death of Wm. Ernst, manager of 

 Carlock Farmers Elevator Company, ter- 



minated his many years' service as an ele- 

 vator manager. Mrs. Ernst, who has had a 

 lifetime of experience in a grain elevator 

 office, worked with her husband. This 

 arrangement created an unusual and Success- 

 ful team in elevator operation and manage- 

 ment. 



F. M. "Andy" Anderson, cash grain 

 salesman on the Chicago Board of Trade 

 and of many years service in the coopera- 

 tive field, severed connections with Illinois 

 Grain Corporation May 31. 



Directors and managers of Farmers Ele- 

 vators in Christian County, along with Farm 

 Bureau leaders, recently considered the stor- 

 age demand problem caused in this "soy- 

 bean empire" by both sealed corn and soy- 

 beans, at the meeting called by the Farm 

 Bureau. Clif Love, farm adviser, advocated 

 more widespread use of abandoned box 

 cars for farm storage. 



LIVESTOCK 



JUNE EVENTS 

 June 1 — Fulton and JoDaviess County 

 Feed Lot Tours. Iroquois County Tour at 

 the Chicago market. 



June 2 — Peoria County Feed Lot Tour. 

 June 20 & 21 — Junior Fat Lamb Show, 

 International Amphitheatre, Chicago. 

 June 22 — Junior Fat Lamb Show, Peoria. 

 June 30 — Stark County Feed Lot Tour. 



Come on you County Livestock Committee- 

 men! If you desire to have your coming 

 events listed in the I.A.A. Record, send 

 them in to the Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association. 



Spring Cattle Survey Meetings consist of 

 summaries and interpretation of 10,500 corn 

 belt cattle feeders marketing intentions. Co- 

 operation of County Livestock Marketing 

 Committees is constantly becoming more 

 effective. Growing appreciation among cat- 

 tle feeders of the practical value of the in- 

 formation is contributing to the increasing 

 success of this project. Manager Dave 

 Swanson, Bob Grieser and other members 

 of the Chicago Producers' staff have taken 

 part in these meetings. 



Chairman Hugh Tippee and Farm Adviser 



Art lohnson of Kane County, on May 3, 

 mustered 160 juniors at the office of the 

 Chicago Producers for a tour of the market 

 and a program of grading contests, followed 

 bv a luncheon meeting at the Stockyards 

 Inn. 



Marketing News „^°"p'i2?i2 



Rural Youth organization representatives 



gathered at the call of Frank Gingrich of 

 the lAA for marketing tours and grading 

 demonstrations recently. At the Peoria Pro- 

 ducers, April 18 there were 83 presnt; as 

 guests of the St. Louis Producers on April 

 19 there were 140. The Chicago Producers 

 entertained 70 on May 4. Free-for-all after- 

 dinner round table discussions were features 

 of these tours. 



380 guests responded to Henr)' County's 



Livestock Marketing Committee's invitation 

 to the second annual stockmen's banquet at 

 Kewanee, April 13. U. S. prime beef was 

 served. J. E. Samuelson, chairman of the 

 County Livestock Marketing Committee, and 

 M. S. Morgan, president of the Henry 

 County Farm Bureau, ably presided. 



Bushnell Producers Commission Company 



held its first annual meeting on April 29. 

 A splendid financial statement of 10 months' 

 operation was read. The response of pro- 

 ducers in supporting this cooperative has 

 made possible its successful operation. 



The 1939 Illinois wool pool is in full 



swing. A series of nine district meetings 

 has just been completed and some fifty 

 counties are sending wool. James Coon of 

 the Farm Credit Administration assisted 

 with the meetings. Indications are that wool 

 prices will be higher in late summer and 

 early fall. You can take advantage of 

 these prices by pooling. See your County 

 Farm Bureau. 



Livingston County has reported 9,622 

 pounds of wool to the state office. 



Biggsville Shipping Association, Hender- 

 son County is now managed by Harold F. 

 Sweitzer, formerly Countv Organization Di- 

 rector. He has started an aggressive cam- 

 paign for more shipments the cooperative 

 way. Lee Carlson succeeds him as County 

 Organization Director for the Farm Bur- 

 eau. Lee will continue the Livestock mar- 

 keting field activities initiated last year. 



Will County Livestock Marketing C«m- 

 mittee has adopted a diversified schedule of 

 activities for 1939 and designate a different 

 member of the committee to assume respon- 

 sibility for each major part of the project. 

 James Patterson of Plainfield is chairman. 



Axel Helander, big cattle feeder and 

 member of the Marshall-Putnam County 

 Committee, says it's worth a lot to have 

 your own cooperative selling agency. He 

 feels perfectly safe in consigning to the 

 Producers knowing that his stock will be 

 sold at the full market value. As former 



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