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COIAIN 



By Harrison Pahmiopf 

 Guy Kintner, I. S. Robinson and Oscar 

 Beery are new directors of LaPlace Coopera- 

 tive Grain Company. They succeed D. E. 

 Wilson, deceased, and Lee Hill and R. R. 

 Toohill who are branch managers for tfie 

 company at Burrowsville and Casner, respec- 

 tively. 



Tuscola Cooperative Grain Company will 

 hold its annual meeting November 7th. 



Anchor Grain Company closed its fiscal 

 year with a net profit of $6,600. 



A few years ago we heard a lot about 



the country elevator being obsolete and that 

 maybe all grains were going to move direct 

 to millers, processors or terminaLs. Today, 

 the local elevator is demonstrating its 

 worth. When corn, beans and wheat start 

 moving with a rush, the farmer wants an 

 outlet close to home. He feels just a little 

 safer in having some one he knows person- 

 ally reporting weights and grades. Then 

 there is the matter of storage. The ever- 

 normal granary program would have a 

 difficult time but for the country elevator. 

 We may have fewer elevators in the future, 

 but they will be bigger and better. 



Speaking of storage, the following are 

 examples of how a few companies are meet- 

 ing the problem : Shirley Grain and Coal 

 Company erected 60 steel bins; Farmers Co- 

 operative Association of Varna, 25 steel bins; 

 Weldon Grain Company constructed five cir- 

 cular concrete tanks of 20,000 bushels capac- 

 ity each ; Towanda Grain Company arranged 

 for storage in the country; Bethany Grain 

 Company has two very large corn cribs lined 

 with hardware cloth and 100,000 bushels of 

 corn stored under provisions of Class B ware- 

 house license; Earlville Farmers Cooperative 

 Elevator Company filled 45 steel bins erected 

 by the La Salle County Conservation Com- 

 mittee; Atwood Grain & Coal Company 

 erected two 20,000-bushel concrete bins; 

 Kewanee Farmers Elevator Company is co- 

 operating with the Henry County Committee 

 in erecting and filling 35 steel bins; Tuscola 

 Cooperative Grain Company erected 53 steel 

 bins of 1,000 bushel capacity and in addi- 

 tion to filling these bins, stored 40,000 

 bushels of corn in one of the company's 

 branch elevators; Anchor Grain Company 

 is storing 160,000 bushels of the 1938 corn. 

 A new 30,000-bushel annex brings the total 

 capacity of the house to 70,000 bushels. 

 In addition, 32 steel bins were erected and 

 large storage space was leased from a former 

 competitor; Aha Farmers Cooperative Ele- 

 vator Company stored 5,000 bushels in the 

 elevator under Class B warehouse license 

 and erected six steel bins for further stor- 



age. These are opiy a few examples of 

 cooperation between cooperative elevators 

 and county conservation committees. 



At the annual meeting of Illinois Grain 

 Corporation held in Peoria, October 12, 

 Fred Zimmerman of Mason County and 

 George Thier of Lee County retired from the 

 board of directors after several years of faith- 

 ful service. 



Illinois Grain Corporation has member 

 elevators in each of 46 counties. 



R. S. Caughey, secretary of Farmers 

 Grain Company at Charlotte was a re- 

 cent visitor to the ofTice of Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration in Chicago. 



Ten counties pertaining to carloads of 

 grain shipped through Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration during its first full year of opera- 

 tion are as follows: McLean 785 cars; 

 La Salle 452; Lee 296; Peoria 257; Cham- 

 paign 218; Livingston 191; Greene 179; 

 Christian 159; Henry 139; Coles 134. The 

 ten high stations for the year are as follows: 

 Colfax 327 cars; Ransom 154; Anchor 147; 

 Kewanee 139; Graymont 134; Earlville 125; 

 Cissna Park 116; Champaign County Grain 

 106; Savoy 101; and Covel 91 cars. 



LIVESTOCK 



NOVEMBER EVENTS — NORTHERN 

 ILLINOIS 



Feedlot Tours — November 2, Winnebago 

 County; November 3, Lake County; Novem- 

 ber 15, Fulton County (Lambs); November 

 16, DeKalb County (Lambs) ; November 17, 

 Kane County; Market Tour — November 2, 

 Kendall County to Chicago Producers; Live- 

 stock Banquets — November 2, Stark County; 

 November 20, LaSalle County; November 21, 

 Fulton County; Mass Meeting November 27, 

 DeKalb County. 



Cattle, hogs and sheep consigned by Chair- 

 man Carl M. Johnson of the DeKalb County 

 Livestock Marketing Committee were sold by 

 the Chicago Producers Sept. 22. Sixty- five 

 head of 870 lb. Texas feeders which Carl re- 

 ceived Sept. 7th. and 100 calves for Octo- 

 ber delivery also were ordered through the 

 Producers. 



Chairman Viron Gustafson of the 

 Marshall-Putnam Livestock Marketing Com- 

 mittee, received 41 western feeder cattle, 

 bought through the Peoria Producers Sept. 

 I6th. Viron says he gets better quality for 

 less money by entrusting the buying job to his 

 cooperative commission association. 



Profitable returns from hogs marketed 

 early, due to proper sanitation and feeding, 

 were demonstrated during the LaSalle county 

 hog tour Sept. 13. Farm records presented 

 by Adviser Evans showed $173 return per 

 $100 worth of feed used by Everett Gohn, 

 $177 by Ralph G. Smith, and $180 by Harry 

 Haywood. j 



War markets and problematical develop- 

 ments affecting feeding operations contributed 

 to new high attendance at September outlook 

 meetings. Attendance records were: Bureau 

 County 100, DeKalb 190, Kane, Kendall and 

 DuPage jointly 175, Lee 105, McLean (stock- 

 men's banquet) 260, Tazewell 175, Whiteside 

 110, Wmnebago 100, Knox, LaSalle, Ogle, 

 Mercer and Stephenson Counties 80 to 95 

 feeders present. Numerous other counties 

 were equally well represented. 



Fall Feedlot Tours were conducted in all 

 cattle feeding sections of the state each Thurs- 

 day and Friday during September and Octo- 

 ber. The striking difference in finish and uni- 

 formity of cattle obtained through Producers 

 or other reliable buying agencies compared 

 with droves bought without attention to ori- 

 gin and breeding was noted by feeders who 

 made the farm to farm visits. 



Top ranking counties in cooperative live- 

 stock marketing in the Southern division the 

 first six months 1939, as compared with cor- 

 responding period 1938. are as follows: Cal- 

 houn 107%. Broun 67%. Piatt 37%. Jersey 

 3i%. Massac 32%. 



Calhoun County stockman more 

 than doubled their shipments to the St. Louis 

 Producers the first six months of 1939. The 

 first organized efforts in this county got un- 

 der way in 1938. Shipments totalled 40 cars 

 for the first six months of that year as com- 

 pared with 29 cars for the corresponding pe- 

 riod in 1937. Olhoun livestock men boosted 

 this figure to 83 cars for the first six months 

 of 1939. The livestock marketing committee 

 chairman is Paul Ringhausen, assisted by John 

 Herter, Everett Byrd, Carl Franke and George 

 Lumley. 



White county livestock producers are 

 demonstrating their disposition to market live- 

 stock cooperatively at such markets as seem to 

 afford them the most satisfactory outlet from 

 the standpoint of price and convenience. 

 Early in 1939 a packer direct buying station 

 was established in the county and his done 

 some business. However, with this point 

 operating the county shows a gain of 11 per- 

 cent in volume over the first six months of 

 1938. Their shipments have been divided be- 

 tween St. Louis and Evansville with a tenden- 

 cy to generalize their shipments to Evansville 

 Producers, because of less distance. 

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