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without having to cover large areas 

 of country territory in search of eggs, 

 Alp said. 



The eggs were graded by Alp and 

 Henry G. F. Hamann, marketing spe- 

 cialist of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



"GOING, GOING, GONE I SOLD TO THE fflGHEST BIDDER I" 

 Auctioneer selling a lot oi eggs Nov. 16. in Illinois' first egg auction at Yorkvilla. 

 Poultrymen in 13 counties have contracted to market their eggs thru the cooperative 

 YorkvUle Poultry and Egg Auction. Buyers bid from information supplied on small black- 

 boords bearing the lot number, government grade, number of cases and weight of each 

 let. Experience at other auctions shows that buyers willingly pay more for unifonnly 

 graded eggs. 



5000 Dozen Eggs Bring Good Prices At Yorliville 



IXTY-TWO thousand eggs 

 were sold at Yorkville, Ken- 

 dall county, November \6 

 with all the glamour and drama that 

 accompanies the chattering tobacco auc- 

 tioneer or the selling to the highest 

 bidder of pies at old-fashioned pie 

 suppers. 



The occasion was Illinois" first dis- 

 trict-wide egg auction, officially known 

 as the Yorkville Poultry and Egg Auc- 

 tion. It was organized by the county 

 Farm Bureaus of 13 northern Illinois 

 counties with the aid of the University 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture and 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



Seventy-one of the 95 producers 

 from 13 counties who have contracted 

 to sell their eggs at the auction each 

 Thursday afternoon brought 6,2671/2 

 dozen into the first auction. A total 

 of 5,190 dozen, or 62,280 eggs, were 

 sold to the highest bidder. 



Farm Adviser W. P. Miller, of Ken- 

 dall county, purchased the first lot 

 of eggs, which sold at the top price 

 of 75 cents a dozen, for the Kendall 

 County Farm Bureau. The next high- 

 est selling lot consisted of 16 2/3 dozen 

 Jumbo's, making up the largest and 

 best quality eggs sold, which brought 

 an average of 37 cents a dozen. 



Next, in the order of their quality, 

 the 58 cases of "large extras" brought 

 an average of 32% cents a dozen; 74 

 cases of "medium extras" were bought 

 at 25 cents a dozen; eight cases of 

 "large standards," 28% cents; 13 cases 

 of "producers' grades," made up of 



all the foregoing grades but composed 

 of dirty or stained eggs, 26% cents; 

 nine cases of pullet eggs, 22 cents; and 

 seven cases of^ ungraded eggs, 28 cents. 



The auction plan offers many advan- 

 tages to producers, buyers and con- 

 sumers, according to , H. H. Alp, as- 

 sistant professor of poultry extension. 



First, the producer gets a larger share 

 of the price paid for the eggs than 

 under any other form of egg cooper- 

 ative. Ordinarily, the prices paid pro- 

 ducers are as high as, if not higher, 

 than can be obtained under other mar- 

 keting methods. 



Consumers are insured eggs on 

 which there is no question of quality, 

 while buyers for restaurants, hotels 

 and other outlets can supply their needs 



Contour Farming Boosts 

 Yields 



Many times you hear farmers remark, 

 "It's not erosion control we need, we 

 want water." 



There's only one answer, according to 

 Warren C. Huff of the Soil Conserva- 

 tion Service. "We cant bring rain, but 

 we can say that practices such as contour 

 tillage, strip-cropping on the contour, 

 and pasture furrows on the contour help 

 to control erosion and at the same time 

 conserve the rainfall that we do get. 

 The same principles apply both in sav- 

 ing soil and moisture." 



That these practices conserve moisture 

 is shown in a study made in a New York 

 county for the crop year 1937. It indi- 

 cated that crops planted on the contour 

 yielded more than those that were not 

 planted this way. Com, for example, 

 yielded about three more tons to the acre, 

 potatoes about ten more bushels to the 

 acre, buckwheat about four more bushels, 

 and wheat about ten more bushels to the 

 acre, according to Mr. Huff. 



Hello! — Farmers own 32,000 mu- 

 tual telephone companies serving 600,- 

 000 U. S. farmers, says the Farm Credit 

 Administration. Of these, 2,000 own 

 their switchboards and are valued at 

 an average of $5,000 each. Nearly 

 30,000 are single line mutuals with lines 

 leading to switchboards of other com- 

 panies. Average investment in these 

 units is about |500. 



MULES FOR FRENCH ARMY 

 A French commission, authorized to buy 6.000 mules in the U. S.. is shown watching 

 the mule auction at the East St Louis market Order for the mules has been placed 

 with a St. Louis firm which is buying them on the East St Louis, Chicago and Kansas 

 City morkeU. Members of the commission are, L. to R.. Capt Rossi. Copt DeBeoufotL 

 Capt DeChompgrond and Major Dieu Louard. 



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