By S. F. Russell 



Indianapolis Producers handled more than 

 3 million dollars worth of live stock in 

 January, according to a report just issued 

 by the officers. The Producers received 

 27.8 per cent of the salable live stock on 

 the market with the volume well above a 

 year af^o. January was the bi/{gest month 

 on record in cattle for the Producers with 

 an increase of 1207 head over January of 

 1944, and the largest January since 1935 was 

 reported for calves with an increase of 589 

 head over a year ago. The largest January 

 in hogs since 1934 was also reported with 

 an increase of 5647 head, and the smallest 

 sheep and lamb total since January, 1939, 

 with a decrease of 9794 head from the first 

 month of 1944. 



Chicago Produers' 23rd annual meeting 



scheduled for March 8, has been cancelled 

 by the board of directors. The action was 

 taken to comply with the recent order of 

 Mobilization Director Byrnes. In accord- 

 ance with the by-laws of the association, the 

 present directors will continue to serve in 

 office until such time as a membership meet- 

 ing can be held. 



Here's a tip from the Chicago Producers' 



newsletter: "Did you know that paint on 

 hogs for identification purposes is not satis- 

 factory, as it often blends with the hog's 

 color and cannot be seen. It is advisable 

 to have your hogs marked with shears be- 

 fore leaving the farm, if it is convenient." 



Organization of a new subsidiary of the 



Bloomington Producers to be known as 

 "Producers Stockyards Supplies," was an- 

 nounced at the recent annual meeting of the 

 Bloomington cooperative. The new subsid- 

 iary will handle mixed fertilizers manu- 

 factured by the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany plant. 



According to the reports presented at the 

 Bloomington Producers annual meeting, the 

 cooperative handled livestock valued at 

 12,085,502 during 1944. Feed sales 

 amounted to $102,000 for the year. Net 

 income was reported at $17,513, and net 

 worth at $54,947. Average weight of hogs 

 handled in 1944 was 253 pounds compared 

 with 262 pounds for 1943. 



Directors elected were Carl Lage, Walter 

 Risser, Charles Disher. Byron Kline, Chris 

 Warsaw, Frank R. Hubert. Alden Sutter, 

 W. F. Satterfield and Lowell Kraft. 



That the breeding of yearling heifers fed 

 for about five months is a sound practice is 

 suggested by results of experiments on the 

 effect of pregnancy on quality of beef at the 

 University of Illinois College of Agriculture. 

 Pregnant heifers take on a higher degree of 

 finish during this time than do open heifers 

 in the same period. 



Copies of Bulletin 508, "Effect of Preg- 

 nancy on Quality of Beef" are available up- 

 on request to the University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Urbana. 



Formei Logan COD Hired 



As Livestock Field Man 



Lee Roy Hays, former assistant farm 

 adviser and organization director in 

 Logan county, has been hired as field 

 man for district 

 four on the staff of 

 the livestock mar- 

 keting department 

 of the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Associ- 

 ation, according to 

 a n announcement 

 by S. F. Russell, di- 

 rector. 



Counties in- 

 cluded in the dis- 

 trict in which Hays 

 will work are: Kankakee, Livingston, 

 Ford, Iroquois, McLean, DeWitt, Piatt, 

 Vermilion, Champaign, Macon, Moul- 

 trie, Douglas, Edgar, Coles, Shelby, 

 Cumberland, Clark, Jasper, and Craw- 

 ford. 



Hays, who recently received an hon- 

 orable discharge from the U. S. Army, 

 began work on his new job Feb. 15. 

 He had been employed in Logan coun- 

 ty from Sept. 1, 1940, until he entered 

 the Army, May 15, 1944., He received 

 his discharge Dec. 14, 1944. 



Lee Roy Hoys 



A graduate of the U. of I. College 

 of Agriculture in January, 1939, Hays 

 was employed on the university staff 

 after graduation in Farm Bureau-Farm 

 Management work. On Jan. 1, 1940, 

 he was hired as debt adjustor for the 

 Farm Security Administration in west 

 central Illinois, and then was employed 

 as assistant farm adviser and organiza- 

 tion director in Logan county in Sep- 

 tember, 1940. 



Hays was born and reared on a live- 

 stock farm near Normal, McLean coun- 

 ty, and participated in 4-H club work 

 for nine years. While engaged in 4-H 

 club work he started in the purebred 

 hog business and also had a number 

 of baby beef projects. Hays' father. 

 C. R. Hays, is a special agent for 

 Country Life Insurance Company in 

 McLean county. He also has been a 

 leader in the state in writing Farm 

 Bureau fire insurance business. 



Hays is married and has one daugh- 

 ter, Patricia Ann, 7. His wife is the 

 former Marian Von Fossen of Bloom- 

 ington. 



Of 374 swine herds tested for brucellosis 



in Illinois last year involving 5,082 animals, 

 181 infected herds were cleaned up, states 

 a report from the department of animal 

 pathology and hygiene at the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture. 



Membership of the lAA liveBtock market- 

 ing committee is composed of two repre- 

 sentatives from each of the 15 congres- 

 sional districts, representatives irom the 

 cooperative marketing agencies at Chi- 



cago, St. Louis, Peoria, Springfield, In- 

 dianapolis, Evansville, and the Illinois 

 Livestock Marketing Association, and the 

 lAA marketing committee. The committee 

 has had several meetings. 



Members oi a five-man special commit- 

 tee named to study the coordination and 

 availability of cooperative livestock mar- 

 keting agencies in the state began work 

 Feb. 8. Leit to right are: J. P. Redman, 



Pulaski county; Byron Kline, McLean; 

 Carl M. Johnson. DeKalb; Lawrence Todt. 

 Montgomery, and Edwin Gumm, Knox. 

 The committee was named by the lAA 

 livestock marketing committee. 



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