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Th» niineia Agriculhuol Anociaiion RECORD 

 U published monthly by th« lUinoU Agrictiltural 

 Aawdation at ISOI W. Washington Road. Moa- 

 deta. ni. Ediloriol Officos. SOS So. Dooiborn St.. 

 Chicago. lU. Entorod as second doss matter at 

 post oiiice. Mendota. Illinois. September 11, 1936. 

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Director of Information, C. L. Mast. Jr.; Editor. 

 Merrill C. Gregory, on leave of absence with the 

 United States Army,* Assistant editor, Creston 

 Foster; Director of Advertising. C. M. Seograves. 

 on leave of obsence with the U. S. Navy. 



Illinois Agricnltnial 

 Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization 

 in America 



OmCEHS 

 President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President Talmage Delrees Smithboro 

 Corporate Sec, Paul E. Mathiaa . Chicago 



Field Sec, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Asst Treas., A. H. Wright Varna 



Comptroller. R. G. Ely Chicago 



General Counsel, Donald Eirkpatrick. . . . 

 Chicago 



'' BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional Districts) 

 1st to nth Haryey W. Adair, Chicago Hts. 



12th Rex E. Peddicord, Marseilles 



13th Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th Otto SteUey, Stronghurst 



15th Ronald A. Holt Galva 



16th Albert Hayes, Chilicothe 



17th Charles Lauritzen, Roddick 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan 



20th E. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21at Dwight Hart, Taylorville 



22ad AlTin O. Eckert, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting, EUery 



2Sth August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Grain Marketing George H. Iftner 



Live Stock Marketing. S. F. Russell 



Office _ C. E. lohnsion 



Orgonizatien O. D. Brissenden 



Produce Marketing T. A. Gougler 



Publicitv C. L. Mast, Jr. 



Research and Ta xa t i on. L. H. Simerl 



Safety C. M. Seograves (en leave. U.S.N.) 



Sales Service W. P. Sandford 



Soil Improvement John R. Spencer 



Tronspertation-Clainis _ G. W. Baxter 



Young People's Activities Xllswortb D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co Dove Mieher. Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Reinsur. Co J. H. Xelker. Mgr. 



IlL Agr. Auditing Assn. C. E. Strand, Mgr. 



ni. Agr. Mutual Ins. C0....JI. E. Richardson, Mgi. 



ni. Agr. Service Co Earl C. Smith. Pres. 



Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 



DL Co-op Locker Service Dana Cryder. Pres. 



DL F. Bur. Serum Assn.....S. F. Russell, Sec-Mgr. 



ni. FaiB Supply Co. C. H. Becker, Mgr. 



DL Fruit Grovrers' Exchange..L. L. Colvis. Mgr. 



ni. Grain Corporation Trank Haines, Mgr. 



ni. Livestock Mktg. Assn.-H. W. Trautmann. Mgr. 



ni. tiOlk Producers' Assn Wilfred Shaw. Mgr. 



ni. Producers' Creameries J. B. Counties. Mgr. 



m. Wool Mktg. Assn. S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgr. 



MAY, 1944 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, social and education interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the Nation, and to develop agriculture. 



MAY. 1944^^^ ^ " , 



EiJ VOLUME 22 - NUMBER 5 



Report Findings of lAA Studies 



On Soybean and Fertilizer Plants 



REPORTS of studies on soybean 

 processing plants, fertilizer mixing 

 plants, and livestock marketing fea- 

 tured the annual spring meeting of 

 Illinois Farm Bureau leaders April 7 at 

 Springfield. 



Because of the inability of farmers to 

 get soybean meal in adequate quantities, 

 county Farm Bureaus have been seeking 

 assistance from the lAA in gathering in- 

 formation on the possibilities of setting 

 up local soybean processing plants, 

 George E. Metzger, IAA field secretary, 

 said in making a report on studies con- 

 ducted by an IAA committee on this 

 subject. 



Problems to be faced in entering the 

 soybean processing field were cited in 

 the report as follows: 



The marketing of oil is a major prob- 

 lem. If several plants are erected, it is 

 possible that the quality of oil coming 

 from the respective plants will not be 

 uniform in quality. It is also possible 

 that the quality produced by any one 

 plant would not be sufficient to enable 

 it to market the oil efficiently after the 

 war, when foreign oils will most likely 

 come into competition with locally pro- 

 duced oils. 



It is therefore recommended, in the 

 event local processing units are built, 

 that a statewide overhead corporation be 

 set up, financed in part by local proc- 

 essing companies, which would be re- 

 sponsible for the sale of oil, possibly 

 the refining of oil, and to provide an 

 outlet for any excess meal that might be 

 manufactured by local plants. These 

 local and state cooperatives would be 

 set up on a patronage basis, with divi- 

 dends eventually flowing back to the 

 grower of beans and the user of meal. 



Study also reveals that the solvent 

 type of processing unit appears to be the 

 most efficient. The small unit solvent 

 plant is still in the experimental stage 

 and it is quite certain that few, if any, 

 priorities will be granted for the build- 



ing of such units until they have been 

 {perfected to the point where they may be 

 considered outside of the experimental 

 stage. 



Other recommendations of the report 

 were that such plants should be owned 

 locally and financed by the sale of stock 

 widely distributed among farmers and 

 that in most cases they be operated under 

 a separate corporation. It was also recom- 

 mended that such corporations should 

 be tied in with the usual controls, in- 

 cluding "B" stock, etc., and that plants 

 be located where there is sufficient bean 

 acreage to justify soybean processing 

 units and sufficient livestock to utilize a 

 large per cent of the bean meal produced. 



Entering the processing field should 

 only be done after a careful study and 

 sur\'eys of local conditions, the report 

 stated, so that the County Farm Bureaus, 

 which might promote the project, 

 would have full information concern- 

 ing the possibilities of success in this 

 venture. 



The report presented to the leaders on 

 the fertilizer situation indicated that 

 rather substantial savings might be made 

 with mixing plants properly located and 

 connected with an economical and de- 

 pendable distribution service. 



Studies which have already been made 

 by the IAA indicate that a fertilizer 

 mixing plant should be located near a . 

 reliable source of superphosphate. There 

 are two areas in the state which seem to 

 be proper places for fertilizer plants. 

 In these two areas, the freight rate struc- 

 ture is favorable, and water transporta- 

 tion is available, truck lines and livestock 

 trucks going from these areas to the coun- 

 try are available. Through the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company, a splendid dis- 

 tribution outlet is available. Fertilizer 

 should be distributed by truck as nearly 

 direct from the fertilizer plant to the 

 farm as is possible. 



The cost of a fertilizer mixing plant 



