October y 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



M-P Elevator Managers 

 ~~ Laud Marketing Service" 



Directors and managers of the Gran- 

 ville, McNabb and Varna elevators in 

 Marshall and Putnam counties, all mem- 

 bers of the Illinois Grain Corporation, 

 met on October 2 at the Farmers State 

 Bank, McNabb, reports the Marshall- 

 Putnam Farm Bureau. Harrison Fahrn- 

 kopf and Charles P. Cummings of the 

 Illinois Grain Corporation, and John 

 Benson of the Farmers National, Peoria, 

 attended the meeting. 



Mr. Stromgren, manager of the Var- 

 na elevator, stated that he has found 

 the service of the Mid-West and Illinois 

 Grain Corporation entirely satisfactory. 

 In only one or two instances, he said, 

 were outside bids higher than those re- 

 ceived from this source. 



Mr. Whitaker, manager of the Gran- 

 ville elevator, reported that practically 

 all grain from that elevator had been 

 shipped to the Mid-West Grain Cor- 

 poration and that the service had been 

 very satisfactory. 



Marshall-Putnam county stands in 

 eighth place in the state for the quan- 

 tity of grain shipped through the Illi- 

 nois regional. A total of 176 cars were 

 shipped to the Mid-West from this 

 county since it began operating. 



PadiMev^S 



Kirkpatrick Speaker at 



-^ — Knox County Meeting 



ILLINOIS farmers during the past 

 four and one-half years have invest- 

 ed $1,000,000 in co-operative organiza- 

 tions which market commodities pro- 

 duced by someone else, Donald Kirkpat- 

 rick, legal counsel for the I. A. A., told 

 Knox county farmers at a community 

 picnic September 15. The county oil 

 and supply companies are examples. 



On the other hand, Kirkpatrick 

 pointed out, in the past ten years the 

 same producers have invested little or 

 nothing to perfect a machine for mar- 

 keting their own products. 



He further stated that co-operative 

 marketing does not end with the co- 

 operative assembling of commodities as 

 has become the common idea among 

 many shipping association members. The 

 producer should control the product un- 

 til it reaches the terminal market or the 

 consumer. Only one out of three cars 

 of livestock shipped through Illinois 

 shipping associations is handled by co- 

 operatives on the terminal markets. 



The speaker said that the control of 

 50 or 60 per cent of grain and livestock 

 would enable these co-operatives to bar- 

 gain with the purchasers of the com- 

 modities in such a way that producers 

 would receive a larger share of the con- 

 sumer's dollar. : 



The daily farm program of the 

 I. A. A. over radio station WJJD, 

 Chicago (1130 kilocycles), is now 

 broadcast at 1 p. m. each week day 

 except Saturday. 



During the summer the daily 

 broadcast was discontinued in favor 

 of programs on Tuesday, Thursday 

 and Saturday nights. 



Daily livestock market reports, 

 farm news and crop and market in- 

 formation of special interest to Illi- 

 nois farmers will make up the pro- 

 gram as in the past. Talks by I. A. 

 A. staff members w^ill be scheduled 

 from time to time. The Chicago 

 Producers will present a weekly 

 livestock market review^ every Fri- 

 day. 



The state champion 4-H Club quar- 

 tette from Marshall-Putnam counties 

 will broadcast over the NBC network 

 from station KYW, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 7. Illinois 4-H members will pro- 

 vide the entire program at that time. 

 Members of the quartette are Frank Mc- 

 Cusky, Lacon; Aman Wilson, Sparland; 

 Bert McKee and Max Meredith, LaRose. 



Ray C. Doneghue, farm adviser from 

 McDonough county broadcast from 

 Stations WMAQ and WJJD, Chicago, 

 on Oct. 6-7. He told how McDonough 

 livestock growers were building their 

 own marketing machinery. 



The National Broadcasting Company 

 announces that Walter Damrosch and 

 his orchestra inaugurated the 1931-32 

 Music Appreciation Hour on Friday, 

 October 9. This broadcast goes on the 

 air from N. B. C. stations between 10 

 and 11 A. M. central standard time. 



More than 56,000 copies of an im- 

 proved manual will be distributed to 

 schools throughout the country. The 

 manual includes suggestions for class- 

 room reception of the series, an orches- 

 tral seating plan, descriptive notes on 

 all compositions to be played, a schedule 

 of concert dates, and music material 

 available for school orchestras, in addi- 

 tion to illustrations and comments by 

 national figures. 



The NBC estimates that more than 

 5,000,000 school children hear the 

 Music Appreciation Hour. 



inois Livestock Market 

 Ass'n Now Selling Daily 



PRODUCERS are not getting their 

 rightful share of what the consumer 

 pays for his meat, Ray Miller, director; 

 of livestock marketing, told Boone 

 county farmers at a special livestock 

 meeting held at the Farm Bureau office 

 September 22. 



For each dollar spent in 1913 for 

 meat the producer was getting 56 cents 

 while in 1931 the farmer is getting only 

 3 5 cents. Miller pointed out. This grad- 

 ual narrowing of the producer's share 

 necessarily means less profit. The pro- 

 ducer has very little voice in the pres- 

 ent marketing situation. 



Private commission firms still hold the 

 real control. They have no reason to 

 cut their charges in the stock yards such 

 as pen rent, corn prices, etc. At pres- 

 ent commission firms are charging $1.30 

 a bushel for all corn fed. 



The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation is now marketing livestock 

 daily. It is selling according to grade 

 on the market where the stock com- 

 mands the best price. 



Boone county, according to Farm 

 Adviser E. C. Foley, will hold a tour 

 of livestock producers this fall when 

 selling and grading demonstrations will 

 be held. 



Mason and McLean Co.'s 

 Lead in Grain Marketing 



The Allen Farmers Elevator Company 

 in Mason county, which recently joined 

 the Illinois Grain Corp., makes the 76th 

 grain co-operative to affiliate with the 

 state-wide regional and the Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corporation. The Allen 

 elevator handles approximately 250,000 

 bu. of grain annually. 



Mason and McLean counties now lead 

 in co-operative grain marketing with 

 seven elevators each in the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation. The 76 grain co-operatives 

 represent a total volume of more than 

 12,000,000 bu. annually. The Guthrie 

 Farmers Elevator in Ford county, affili- 

 ated with the Illinois Grain Corporation 

 the previous week. 



J. P. Watkins is manager and Hubert 

 Ingersoll, president of the Allen Eleva- 

 tor. Other members of the board are: 

 -Henry Worner, J. W. Harmel, Edward 

 Stansbury, Fred Radefield, Wm. Diers, 

 Fritz Miller, Frank Bartles, and Henry 

 Hiller. 



Henry W. Trautman, formerly with the Chi- 

 cago and Kansas City Producers is the new 

 manager of McDonough Livestock Marketing 

 Association at Macomb. He began work Oct. 1. 



The Vermilion County Livestock 

 Marketing Association has hiade arrange- 

 ments to finance cattle and lamb feed- 

 ing operations for feeders at an interest 

 rate of 6 per cent, according to P. F. 

 Kettering, manager. 



