Page Twelve 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



June, 1932 



Commission Rates Cut 



New rates for buying and sell- 

 ing livestock on commission at 

 the Kansas City and St. Joseph 

 stockyards have been prescribed 

 by the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. It is estimated that pro- 

 ducers shipping to Kansas City 

 will save $250,000 this year, and 

 those shipping to St. Joseph 

 $100,000. 



The order came as the result of 

 a long inquiry. The reductions on 

 both markets are practically the 

 same. For example, the minimum 

 for rail shipments of cattle has 

 been $15 and the maximum $19; 

 the minimum is now $13 and the 

 maximum $15.50. 



On truck-in consignments to 

 Kansas City the per head rate on 

 cattle was reduced from 75 cents 

 to 70 cents, on hogs from 30 cents 

 to 25 cents, and on sheep from 

 25 cents to 20 cents. St. Joseph's 

 reductions were practically the 

 same. The Department of Agri- 

 culture is now investigating a 

 number of other stockyards, in- 

 cluding the Union Stock Yards, 

 Chicago. 



- The Indianapolis Producers 

 handled a total of 1,032 carloads 

 of livestock during April, the larg- 

 est volume for this month in the 

 history of the organization. This 

 was 135 carloads more than the 

 combined total of the next three 

 largest firms on the market. 



The last thirty days have seen several 

 new all-time records hung up by the 

 Chicago Producers. The cattle depart- 

 ment handled 140 cars of cattle during 

 the week ending May 13, which repre- 

 sents 9.36 per cent of total receipts for 

 the week. The following week the Pro- 

 ducers again handled 140 cars, equalling 

 9.56 per cent of total receipts. 



A new record for the hog department 

 was established In April when on 20,028 

 head of hogs on which home weights 

 werQ available they showed an average 

 shrink of only .9 pounds per hundred- 

 weight, the lightest for the month of 

 April on record. 



Still another record was made during 

 the last week In April when the Pro- 

 ducers received an equivalent of 118 car- 

 loads of livestock in trucks. This live- 

 stock belonged to 980 different farmers, 

 with stock from 271 coming In on one 

 day. They report that every account of 

 sale and check was In the mail the same 

 day. 



During the four weeks ending May 21. 

 the Cincinnati Producers sold 608 cars 

 of livestock representing 35.17 per cent 

 of the total market receipts. Last year 

 487 cars moved through this agency 

 during the same period. They recently 

 added to their sales force Charlev Rose, 

 who has had more than thirty years" 

 experience In selling and handling cat- 

 tle. During the past four weeks more 

 than 27 per cent of the cattle arriving 

 for sale at Cincinnati was handled by 

 the Producers as compared to 17 per 

 cent a year ago. 



All steers shown at the 1932 

 International Live Stock Exposi- 

 tion will be classified by weight 

 rather than age, announces Man- 

 ager B. H. Heide. No steer weigh- 

 ing less than 750 pounds nor more 

 than 1,350 pounds will be admitted 

 to competition. 



The four different classes are 

 as follows: 750-875 pounds; 876- 

 1000 pounds; 1001-1150; and 1151- 

 1350 pounds. No steer calved prior 

 to January, 1931 will be permitted 

 to enter. 



Eat Plenty of Meat 



For Health Says Dr. 



DR. Glen Wakeman of the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado, investi- 

 gator for the American Chemical 

 Society, recently announced that 

 meat and lots of it is necessary for 

 health. 



Dr. Wakeman made exhaustive 

 tests over a two-year period of 70 

 persons who lived on vegetables 

 exclusively. All of these had a 

 low basal metabolism, "which in 

 plain language means that their 

 bodies produced less heat and 

 energy than those of meat-eaters," 

 reports the Chicago Herald & 

 Examiner. The average was 10 

 per cent lower. In some cases it 

 was much more. 



Most vegetarians assert that 

 their diet gives them not only 

 health, but "peace of the soul." 

 Dr. Wakeman remarks that this 

 "peace of the soul" is usually 

 sheer laziness. He mentions the 

 Hindus of India, who live almost 

 solely on vegetables, as an ex- 

 ample. 



The ordinary man to succeed in 

 the strenuous ordeal of life needs 

 plenty of energy and hence plenty 

 of meat. 



Co-Op. Marketing Narrows 

 Butterfat Price Spread 



The average production of but- 

 terfat on Illinois farms is ap- 

 proximately 800 lbs. annually. 

 Co-operative marketing is cred- 

 ited with raising the average price 

 level three cents per pound in 

 communities served by co-ops, 

 based on present and past spreads 

 between country point and Chi- 

 cago butter prices. 



This means that the average 

 gain to Illinois butterfat pro- 

 ducers in co-op. communities ap- 

 proximates $24 per farm, accord- 

 ing to Frank Gougler, director of 

 produce marketing. 



De Frees Elected Head 

 Fruit Growers Exchange 



Mr. De Frees 



TALMAGE De Frees of Smith- 

 boro, I. A. A. director from the 

 22nd district, was elected presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Fruit Growers 

 Exchange at the recent annual 

 meeting in Centralia. Mr. De 

 Frees has been a director of the 

 Exchange for the past two years. 



R. B. Endicott 

 of Villa Ridge, 

 president for 

 the past six 

 years, was elect- 

 e d vice - presi- 

 dent, and Joe 

 W. Cummins 

 was chosen sec- 

 retary - treas- 

 urer. 



General feel- 

 ing toward co- 

 operative m a r - 

 keting of fruits 

 and vegetables in Illinois is im- 

 proving rapidly, and growers are 

 now more than ever feeling the 

 need of co-operative selling, 

 according to Harry W. Day, man- 

 ager. He reported that the morale 

 of the membership is exception- 

 ally good in spite of the prospects 

 for a very light crop of most tree 

 fruits in Illinois this year. 



Prof. R. S. Marsh, University 

 of Illinois, the principal speaker, 

 talked on improved methods of 

 marketing fruits and vegetables. 

 A. B. Leeper, former manager of 

 the Exchange, explained the set- 

 up of the National Fruit and Veg- 

 etable Exchange, with which he 

 is now connected as general man- 

 ager. 



During the morning Joe W. 

 Cummins, field secretary, led a 

 discussion and pointed out the 

 problems concerning truck sales. 

 Reports of officers and directors 

 were also made at the morning 

 session. 



The new directors of the Ex- 

 change are as follows: William E. 

 Williams, Sandoval; George E. 

 Adams, West Liberty; W. L. Cope, 

 Salem; Fred Hawkins, Texico; 

 Logan N. Colp, Carterville; L. R. 

 Allen, Carbondale; E. G. Kinsey, 

 Centralia; Arthur Foreman, Pitts- 

 field; D. R. Wade, Griggsville; 

 Harry Fulkerson, Grafton: H. B. 

 Koeller, Godfrey; and Prof. J. W. 

 Lloyd, Urbana. 



An acre of alfalfa or clover 

 saves about 1,150 pounds of corn 

 and 468 pounds of tankage com- 

 pared to feeding pigs in a dry lot. 



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