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DeKalb Tops Shipments 



To Chicago Prodncers 



Seventy Illinois counties shipped the 

 equivalent of 16,294 'Single deck rail 

 cars of livestock through the Chicago 

 Producers during 1943, according to a 

 report of D. L. Swanson, manager. 



De Kalb county led all counties with 

 1110 cars and in second place was La 

 Salle county with 1063, followed by 

 Henry with 767 cars. 



Other counties shipping more than 

 500 cars to the Chicago Producers were 

 as follows: Lee, 634; Knox, 616; Bu- 

 reau, 606; Iroquois, 592; Ogle, 547; 

 McLean, 530; Stephenson, 530; White- 

 side, 526, and Livingston, 525. 



Livestock Leaders Hit 



Cnrrent Maiket Setup 



OPA ceiling prices and WFA floor 

 prices favor packers over livestock pro- 

 ducers and their cooperatives, speakers 

 declared at the annual meeting of the 

 Bloomington Producers held in mid- 

 February at the McLean County Farm Bu- 



reau. 



H. W. Trautman, manager of the Il- 

 linois Livestock Marketing Association, 

 pointed out that these price formulas 

 have disturbed the market considerably. 



OPA 'retail prices, he said, were high 

 enough so packers could pay more for 

 hogs than they had been paying in the 

 usual flow to market. 



One reaction was that those packers in- 

 terested in country buying, bought more 

 hogs at country points and less in the 

 terminals before the big flow of 1943 

 spring pigs jammed the markets. Since 

 the support price now prevails, he said, 

 it encourages packers to buy either at their 

 own country buying points or in the 

 terminals. 



In addition, Trautman explained, the 

 support price does not take into considera- 

 tion the shrinkage, yardage and feed. The 

 support price is $13.75 at Chicago and 

 $13.45 for Bloomington, or a difference 

 of 30 cents. Truck charges are 25 cents, 

 insurance 5 cents, yardage 7 cents, com- 

 mission 8 cents, feed 5 cents, and there is 

 always a 1 or 2 per cent shrink. 



L. E. Henninger, manager of the 

 Bloomington Producers, reported a $2,- 

 500,000 business for 1943 with the co- 

 operative handling 45,900 hogs, and a 

 total of 60,519 head of all livestock, an 

 increase of 10,140 head over 1942. 



Board members re-elected were Carl 

 A. Lage, Walter Risser, Burditt C. Kraft, 

 Frank Hubert, Alden Sutter, W. F. Satter- 

 field, Chris Warsaw, Byron Cline and 

 Charles Disher. 



Fabruorr 21, 1944 



NOTICE 



niinoia Agricultural Aaaodcrtion 

 Election oi Dal*gat«> 



Notice is hereby given thort in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings 

 of all County Farm Bureaus to be 

 held during the months of March 

 and April, 1944, at the hour and 

 place to be determined by the Board 

 of Directors of each County Form 

 Bureau, the members in good stand- 

 ing of such County Form Bureau and 

 who are also qualified voting mem- 

 bers of Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, shall elect a delegate or dele- 

 gates to represent such members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and 

 vote on all matters before the next 

 annual meeting, or any special 

 meeting of the Association, including 

 the election of officers and directors, 

 as provided for in the By-Laws of 

 the Association. 



During March, on annual meeting 

 will be held in Boone County. 



During April, the annual meeting 

 of the Calhoun County Farm Bureau 

 will be held. 



PAUL E MATHIAS, 

 Corporate Secretary 



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and the 



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Farm Bureau members have the privilege of 

 buying potent serum and virus from their own 

 organization. Its high quality and low cost are 

 made possible thru large volume purchases. More 

 and more of the 100,000 Farm Bureau members 

 are taking advantage of this service. 



Available at all times 



REMEMBER, ^h, cheeper the shet 



YOUR FARM BUREAU 



iCORD 



MARCH. 1944 



