MORE MONEY FOR 



GRAIN 



a farmer of the community and still retains 

 his farm interests. 



By Harrison Fahrnkopj 



"It was a dumb thing to do and 1 

 believe I don't care to say much about it," 

 said Antone (Tony) Powers, manager of 

 CovELL Farmers Grain Company. Tony 

 was commenting on the manner in which he 

 lost the end of a finger when attempting to 

 fill an oil cup with the engine in motion. 



The difference in attitude toward 

 cooperative grain marketing on the part of 

 some directors is as the difference between 

 two small letters of the alphabet, but what 

 a difference! For example, some directors 

 are sold while others are cold on the propo- 

 sition. 



Rex LaFleur, manager of the Bloomington 

 office of Illinois Grain Corporation, broad- 

 casts market news over W]BC (1200 kilo- 

 cycles) at 9:40 A.M.., 10:4i A.M., 13:30 

 P.M., and 1:30 P.M. 



Granville Cooperative Company began 

 operations in 1919. J. H. Whitaker. the 

 manager, says that while in the early days 

 grain moved by team and wagon to the 

 elevator and on out by rail, today practically 

 all of it in his territory moves to barging 

 facilities at the ports of Hennepin or La Salle. 



TRUE or FALSE?? Nobody can put a 

 cooperative elevator out of business except 

 its members. 



Farmers Cooperative Association of 

 Varna has the distinction of being one of the 

 oldest elevator companies in the state. Curtis 

 F. Wright, father of A. R. Wright, assistant 

 treasarer of Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 was one of the incorporators of this company. 

 Mauritz Stromgren is manager. 



E. M. Hanson, formerly with Ottawa Co- 

 operative Grain Company is now with the 

 Lee County Grain Association. 



Ifs a whale of a note! 



But oceans and hog-lots, salt water and 

 cornfields have something in common. Eng- 

 land has a big reserve of whale oil and as 

 long as they have it they will not buy the fat 

 from the sides of our porkers. 



The St. Louis Bank for Cooperatives re- 

 cently issued a booklet "Farmer Co-Ops in 

 Illinois." It contains much valuable informa- 

 tion and can be secured by writing the bank. 



Henry Holl, manager of Sadorus Coop- 

 bkative Elevator Company, knows the 

 production as well as the marketing side of 

 the farm problem. He was, for many years. 



Summerfield Cooperative Assocution, 

 a distributor of Blue Seal Feeds received a 

 patronage dividend of $1,756.40 from Illinois 

 Farm Supply Co. 



Fairland Grain Company repaired the 

 "other" elevator at that station with the in- 

 tention of storing soybeans in both houses 

 but instead stored corn. A number of com- 

 panies who early planned bean storage 

 changed to corn. Delbert Warnes is manager 

 for the Fairland company. 



Hugh Triplett, Farm Adviser in Ford 

 County says he is proud (he has a right to 

 be) of the showing made by GuTHRiE Farm- 

 ers Elevator Company and Farmers 

 Grain Company of Gibson Qty, both 

 members of Illinois Grain Corporation in 

 his county. They support the State Coopera- 

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LIVESTOCK 



By Sam Russell, Louis Hall and Si Simpson 



December Events — International Live- 

 stock Show, Chicago — December 2 - 9. 

 Stockmen's Banquets, Henry, III., 



Dec. 11; Rock ford, Dec. ii. 

 JoDaviess Co. Shipping Ass'n._ annual 



MEETING, Elizabeth, Decemb'er 14. 

 Fulton County Christmas Week Tour 

 to Peorla Producers, December 28. 



Approximately 375 Stark County 

 feeders heard P. O. Wilson of the National 

 Live Stock Marketing Association, at a ban- 

 quet Nov. 2. Bert Kellogg, chairman of the 

 Kendall county committee, described his large- 

 scale feeding operations including the guid- 

 ance he gets from Conway's market summary 

 and forecasts. Kellogg entrusts his feeder- 

 buying problems to the Chicago Producers. 



Mercer County Committee mustered 108 

 livestock farmers at a royal feed and talk fest 

 on the evening of October 12. Walter Howe 

 of Chicago Producers ably presented the high- 

 lights of cooperative marketing, interspersed 

 with many interesting illustrations drawn from 

 his long experience both on the buying and 

 selling sides of the trade. 



Truckmen and stockmen, 130 in all 

 rubbed elbows at Bureau County's annual 

 banquet Oct. 20. Frank Poscharsky credited 

 farmers with a 40 percent improvement in 

 loading facilities in the section of the county 

 he serves. Alvin Hener explained his meth- 



ods for preventing shrinkage in transit. Oren 

 Pomeroy told how he prepares livestock for 

 shipment from his farm, and Vernon Searle 

 gave practical pointers on building a farm 

 loading chute. Henry Johnson, John Harris, 

 and John Rogier of Chicago Producers, and 

 Louis Hall of lAA, took part in the program. 

 Genial County Committee Chairman Guy 

 Atkin swung the gavel. 



Manager D. L. Swanson of Chicago Pro- 

 ducers, has been billed as speaker at the an- 

 nual meeting of the Lee County Farm Bu- 

 reau, December 16. t 



George Dauberman of Kane County's 

 Livestock Marketing Committee, is feeding 

 200 yearling heifers, bought for him by Chi- 

 cago Producers. 



Counties close to Chicj\go in the 



dairy district, are showing an active interest 

 in beef cattle. On November 3, 60 Lake 

 county farmers joined in a tour of eight feed- 

 lots, under the guidance of Farm Adviser 

 Gilkerson and members of the county com- 

 mittee. Some 519 cattle on feed and approxi- 

 mately 900 hogs were seen on the trip. The 

 tour was concluded by a prime roast beef 

 dinner and discussion meeting at Libertyville. 

 Similar tours recently were attended by 70 

 feeders in Will County, 50 in DuPage Coun- 

 ty, and 30 in McHenry. The Producers, Ex- 

 tension Service and lAA cooperated in carry- 

 ing out these events. 



Government market news service opened at 

 Peoria Union Stock Yards, Oct. 1, in charge 

 of .John L. Burgess, who was transferred from 

 the National Stock Yards branch of the U. S. 

 Agricultural Marketing Service. The Peoria 

 Producers was active, in cooperation with the 

 Stock Yard Combany and other interests, in 

 obtaining the installation of this valuable 

 daily telegraphic information service for the 

 benefit of livestock feeders in the territory. 



; . By Wilfred Shaw f 



Average Weighted milk prices per cwt. 

 on major markets for September, 1939. All 

 quotations are delivered prices per cwt. f.o.b. 

 dealers plants in cities (with exceptions 

 noted) as reported by the respective milk co- 

 operatives. 



New York City (201-210 mile zone) 2.O6I/2 

 Chicago (70 mile zone) 1.75 



Boston (191-200 mile zone) 1.818 



Pittsburg (October) 2.OOV2 



St. Louis 1.97 



Philadelphia 2.23 



Baltimore 2.26 



Detroit 1.85 



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