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CHICAGO FAT STOCK SHOW SCENE OF 



REPEAT PERF©RMAN€ES 



BY EXHIBITORS OF LAST YEAR 



MOST of the winners in the 1943 Chi- 

 cago Fat Stock Show were exhibitors 

 who carried off championship honors in 

 1942. 



R. F. Constant, Buffalo Hart,Sangamon 

 county, a veteran showman and Chicago 

 Producers patron, won three prizes. He 

 took second prize in the lightweight 

 Shorthorn class; second the medium 

 weight Shorthorn class, and sixth in the 

 light weight Hereford class. 



Karl and George Hoffman, Ida Grove, 

 la., also Chicago Producers patrons, re- 

 peated their outstanding performance of 

 a year ago. Karl showed a load of 910- 

 pound Herefords that finally won in keen 

 competition with 43 other entries to be 

 declared grand champions of the show. 

 They were the lightest load to ever win 

 this carload event. They sold on auction 

 at S35 per cwt., highest price since 1937. 

 Karl also had a load that won first prize 

 in the medium wefght Hereford class 

 and George took fifth in the same class. 



Then Karl and George showed a load 

 of Berkshire hogs and here again took 

 the top honor for the second consecutive 

 year. This grand champion load of hogs 

 brought $14.75- per cwt. (ceiling price). 

 They also had another load of Berkshire 

 hogs that secured first prize in the heavy- 

 weight class. 



T. Richard Lacey, Edgar county, had 

 the grand champion steer of the 1943 

 show with a Hereford. It sold for $4 

 per pound, the third highest price ever 



paid for a grand champion at the show. 



John Oxley, Marion, la., had the re- 

 serve grand champion of the show and 

 it sold for 28 cents per pound. 



Summary of the cattle auction siles 

 at the show is as follows: 79 head sold, 

 average weight 1024 pounds, average 

 price, $17.85 per cwt. 



Junior feeding contest steers: 426 

 head sold, average weight, 1043 pounds, 

 average price, $21.35 per cwt. 



Carlot fat cattle: 44 loads (15 head 

 to a load), average weight, 1071 pounds, 

 average price, $17.50 per cwt. 



Carlot feeder cattle, 9 loads, average 

 weight, 421 pounds, average price, $16.- 

 04 per cwt. 



Outstanding Chicago Producers patron 

 prize winner in the junior lamb feeding 

 contest was Kenneth Disch of Evans- 

 ville. Wis. He won first place in both 

 weight classes in the lamb show and 

 also had grand champion pen of three 

 lambs for the fourth successive year. He 

 also had grand champion individual lamb 

 in the junior feeding contest and the 

 reserve champion of the open class show. 

 His champion pen .sold for 91 cents per 

 pound. 



In the swine sales of the open classes, 

 10 head sold at an average weight of 271 

 pounds brought an average of $14.13 

 per cwt. Swine sales in the junior feed- 

 ing contest of 43 head with an average 

 weight of 259 pounds showed an average 

 price of $17.05 per cwt. 



Gallatin Connty Bnrean 

 Hiies New Faim Adviser 



A. L. Oxford, formerly of Hardin 

 county, has taken over the duties of 

 farm adviser i n 

 Gallatin county. A 

 graduate of Rosi- 

 clare Community 

 High School, and 

 the U. of I. College 

 of Agriculture, Ox- 

 ford has-been 

 teaching vocational 

 a g r i c u 1 ture a t 

 Woodlawn High 

 School for the past 

 two years. 

 At Woodlawn High School, Oxford 

 developed one of the outstanding live- 

 stock projects in the state. His school 

 was high money winner at the Salem 

 sectional FFA fair this year. 



According to Gallatin Farm Bureau 

 officials, Oxford is the first man from 

 Hardin county to qualify for farm ad- 

 viser. 



George N. Peek. First 



AAA Administrator, Dies 



George N. Peek, 70, who served as 

 the first administrator of the AAA pro- 

 gram in 1933, and who worked on the 

 McNary-Haugen bill, died Dec. 17 in 

 his home near San Diego, Calif. 



Formerly of Moline, Mr. Peek was 

 born Nov. 19, 1873 in Polo, Il^, and 

 was graduated from Northwestern Uni- 

 versity in 1892. He was in the farm 

 implement manufacturing business for a 

 number of years. He worked with Deere 

 & Webber Co., 1893-1901; served as 

 vice-president and manager of John 

 Deere Plow Co., 1901-11; vice-president 

 Deere & Co., 1911-19; president and 

 general manager, Moline Plow Co., 

 1919-23. 



Mr. Peek served as AAA administrator 

 in 1933, and in 1934-35 as special ad- 

 viser to the President on foreign trade, 

 and as president of the government ex- 

 port-import banks. Mr. Peek also was 

 co-author of "Equality for Agriculture," 

 a brief which later served as basis for 

 the McNaty-Haugen bill. 



Miss Barbara M. Herlin, former 



home economics teacher in Indianola 

 High School, is now serving as home 

 adviser in Whiteside county. ■ 



R. F. Constant Sangamon county, won 

 throe prizes with his cattle at the 1943 

 Chicago Fat Stock Show. A veteran 



showman, he marketed his animals 

 through the Chicago Producers Commis- 

 sion Association. 



llie USDA reports that more dun 



1,700,000,000 cubic centimeters of hog 

 cholera serum has been made during the 

 period July 1, 1941 to June }0, 1943, or 25 

 per cent over last year's high output and 

 a new production record. 



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