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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



October, 1931 



High School Boy Goes 



to College on Earnings 



Chester White Hogs Pave Way for 

 Honors and Education 



Wilson Bryant, "American Farmer" 

 in 1931 from the Waverly, Illinois 

 Chapter, Future Farmers of America, 

 developed a champion herd of Chester 

 White swine as his major project during 

 his Vocational Agriculture course in the 

 Waverly Township High School. Start- 

 ing with two gilts in his first year of 

 agricultural project work, he reached 

 the peak of the pure bred swine business 

 at the recent National Swine Show held 

 at Springfield, Illinois, when his herd 

 boar, Sunbeam, was declared Reserve 

 Grand Champion Chester White Boar. 



His junior boar pig, Lucky Boy, was 

 fifth and his junior sow pig was seventh 

 in the same show. To date his show herd 

 has won a total of $865 in Fair pre- 

 miums this year, over and above all 

 entry fees. Besides this he has marketed 

 60 head of spring market hogs and sold 

 20 breeding hogs. Next year he will 

 have a herd of 20 sows headed by Sun- 

 beam, his champion boar. At the pres- 

 ent time he has a good supply of breed- 

 ing stock for sale and 120 fall pigs. 



Sells Breeding Stock 



Since he is so situated in the midst of 

 a surplus corn and grain region, he sells 

 the majority of his breeding animals to 

 farmers who feed hogs for their market 

 value. This fact points out the ideal of 

 swine production as exemplified at the 

 recent National Swine Show: "Produc- 

 tion of a swine type to meet market 

 demands for high dressing percentage." 

 As to his management, he practices the 

 McLean System of Swine Sanitation, 

 feeds farm grains as the basis of all his 

 rations, is a good sportsman in the show 

 ring, is an excellent judge of breeding 

 hogs, and sells all of his animals as rep- 

 resented and at a moderate price. 



Wilson has entered the College of 

 Agriculture at the University of Illinois 

 this fall and expects to pay his way 

 through this year of college on the pre- 

 miums won since August 1. He is sell- 

 ing out half interest in his present herd 

 to his brother, a former Vocational 

 Agriculture boy, who will handle the 

 herd this winter. Together they expect 

 to continue in the hog business and 

 eventually get permanently established 

 on a good corn belt farm. 



Handles Other Projects 



It might appear that his project work 

 is one-sided, yet his other project activi- 

 ties include poultry, dairy, corn, wheat, 

 and clover. So he has backed up his 

 major work in Vocational Agriculture 

 with a sound general farming practice. 



Wilson Bryant 



Also he has won judging ribbons on 

 corn, poultry, dairy, and swine. 



His school activities include class sec- 

 retary and treasurer, local F. F. A. sec- 

 retary and treasurer, first Illinois F. F. A. 

 state secretary and treasurer, State Farm- 

 er in Illinois in 1930 and American 

 Farmer in 1931. Added to this he was 

 third in his class room scholarship with 

 an average grade of 94 for four years 

 of high school work. We wish him suc- 

 cess in any other endeavor he takes up, 

 but feel certain that here is an American 

 Farmer who will return to hog farming 

 as a life work, for he is interested in it, 

 has been successful, and enjoys it. 



Getting Ready for Fat 



Stock Show in Chicago 



Manager B. H. Heide of the Interna- 

 tional Live Stock Exposition, Chicago, 

 November 28 to December 5, announces 

 that the preliminary classification for 

 the 1931 show is now off the press and 

 ready for distribution. It will be mailed 

 free on application to the International 

 office at the Stock Yards. 



Entries will close for individual live- 

 stock classes November 1, for the Hay 

 and Grain Show, November 10, and for 

 the carload lots of cattle, sheep, and 

 swine, November 21. 



IMarii^eting 



During the first six months of 1931 

 DeKalb county shipped 408 cars of live- 

 stock to the Chicago Producers as com- 

 pared with 373 during the correspond- 

 ing period in 1930. 



Adams county shipped more livestock 

 co-operatively than any other Illinois 

 county during the second quarter this 

 year. A total of 258 cars went to Pro- 

 ducer agencies. Fulton county was sec- 

 ond with 228 cars. 



One out of every three shipments of 

 livestock made by Illinois shipping asso- 

 ciations to the Chicago market during 

 the month of August went through the 

 hands of the Chicago Producers, reports 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 This was the highest percentage of any 

 state in the Chicago trade territory. 

 From Iowa the Producers received one 

 out of every nine cars. Minnesota stood 

 next with 14.2 per cent; Wisconsin 6.8 

 per cent; other states 8.2 per cent. Of 

 the total shipping association business 

 17.5 per cent was sold through the Pro- 

 ducers. 



A total of 888 carloads of livestock 

 were handled by the Indianapolis Pro- 

 ducers during September, an increase of 

 eight carloads over the same month last 

 year. This was 106 cars more than the 

 combined total of the next three large 

 firms. Forty-one and five-tenths per 

 cent of the rail receipts and 28.6% of 

 those trucked in to the yards were con- 

 signed to the Producers. 



In September the following Illinois 

 shipping association managers sent as 

 many or more cars to the Producers at 

 Indianapolis as a year ago: Fred L. 

 Gumm, Paris; Frank Kettering, Dan- 

 ville; Hans Heit, Garrett; R. C. Boat- 

 man, Sheldon; Wm. Fulk, Decatur; Carl 

 Shasteen, Sullivan. The following Illi- 

 nois counties show an increase to In- 

 dianapolis over September last year: 

 Clark, Edgar, Iroquois, Macon, Moul- 

 trie, Vermilion. 



A two-day session of the I. A. A. 

 board of directors was held in Chicago, 

 September 17 and 18 during which the 

 I. A. A. departmental directors and asso- 

 ciated company managers each were 

 given fifteen minutes to discuss the 

 work of their respective departments 

 and companies, and plans for the com- 

 ing year. 



Up to September 1, 8.37 per cent of 

 the stock received at the Chicago mar- 

 ket was delivered by trucks, according 

 to records of the Union Stock Yard 

 Company. Figures taken from the Chi- 

 cago Producers' records show that they 

 were selling 11.7 per cent of all trucked 

 in cattle, 17 per cent of the calves, 20.5 

 per cent of the hogs, and 22 per cent 

 of the sheep. 



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Uncle Ab says that some folks who 

 can think straight, can't think fast 

 enough to keep up with the procession. 



