RESTRICTIONS HAMPER 

 LIVESTOCK MARKETING 

 ASSOCIATION EXPANSION 



ILLINOIS farmers sold 200,886 head 

 of livestock through the Illinois 

 Livestock Marketing Association during 

 the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Manager 

 H. W. Trautmann of Danville reported 

 to the annual livestock marketing con- 

 ference held Nov. 27 in conjunction 

 with the lAA convention in Chicago. 



Volume shipped by the state-wide 

 Illinois cooperative was about equal to 

 that handled the preceding year. Net 

 income for the year was $9,711.53. 



After payment of $1,815 in dividends 

 on capital stock and the return of 

 $4,905 to farmer producers in the form 

 of patronage dividends, $2,880.35 was 

 added to the surplus of the association. 



War restrictions and the increasing 

 number of direct buying stations set up 

 close to the producers by packers cur- 

 tailed considerable expansion by the 

 marketing cooperative. 



Competition to acquire the highest 

 volume on the part of packers was keen 

 and reports of violations of ceiling 

 prices were common. Inducements of 

 one kind or another, which varied 

 from offers of a flat sum per hog or 

 per carload to more involved proce- 

 dures which were evolved for the pur- 

 pose of staying within the law, were 

 faced by the association. 



Regardless of the attractiveness of the 

 offers, Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation continued to operate its busi- 

 ness as in the past, along lines which 

 reflected maximum service to livestock 

 producers. A close check was kept at 

 all times to keep every phase of the 

 operations within the intent of the war 

 regulations. 



Hogs were not sold to the first ceil- 

 ing-price bidder. Packers who have 

 long been customers of the association 

 and especially those packer patrons who 

 gave the association orders during the 

 period of the hog glut, received prefer- 

 ence in allocating the limited supply of 

 hogs available. 



"To say that the position of the asso- 

 ciation has been awkward at times," 

 Trautmann said, "would be an under- 

 statement. Our most difficult task has 

 been to refuse to sell hogs to packers 

 whose patronage had been earnestly 

 solicited in previous years. Token ship- 

 ments to some of these packers were 

 made to build good will for the period 

 of normal production and marketing. 



"With the setting up of direct buy- 

 ing stations at numerous country points, 

 the competition for the small supply of 



Directors of the Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association lor the year 1945 are pictured 

 here. Seated, left to right: W. A. Dennis. 

 Paris: LaRue Tice, Shelbyville: Carl Lage, 

 vice president, Saybrook: Mont Fox, pres- 

 ident, Oakwood; Balph Beckett, treasurer. 

 Blue Mound: Fred Smittkomp, Paris; Clark 

 Wise, secretary. Champaign. Standing: 

 Charles B. Shuman (left), Sullivan and H. 

 W. Trautmann, manager. 



what extent, however, the business of 

 the association was reduced by the in- 

 creased competition, we cannot tell. It 

 is sufficient to say it was appreciable." 



During the past year new stock yard 

 facilities were built at Champaign, De- 

 catur and Paris. Other association yards 

 are at Bloomington, Danville and Shel- 

 byville. 



H. W. Trautmann reports on 194S livestock 

 marketing operatioiu 



hogs became unbelievably keen," Traut- 

 mann explained. 



"To say that the increase in the 

 number of buying stations, trucker 

 traders and all the other forms of com- 

 petition had no effect on the volume of 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Associa- 

 tion and its affiliated units would be 

 untrue," Trautmann reported. 'To 



PLAN SERIES OF HEALTH 

 MEETINGS FOR JANUARY 



A series of public health seminars will 

 be held in seven Illinois communities 

 during the last half of January. 



The series is being sponsored by the 

 Illinois Community Relations seminar in 

 cooperation with the the extension serv- 

 ice in agriculture and home economics, 

 the Illinois department of public health 

 and the Illinois Statewide Public Health 

 committee. 



Dates of the meetings are as follows: 



Dixon, Jan. 15; Pontiac, Jan. 16; 



Springfield, Jan. 17; Urbana, Jan. 28; 



Effingham, Jan. 29; Benton, Jan. 30, 

 and Highland, Jan. 31. 



Francis Callahan, Iroquois, is shown with 



his 267-pound Chester White which was 



chosen grand champion barrow in the 



Chicago Fat Stock Show Dec. 4. 



Frank Trainor. Livingston, is shown with 



the barrow which won the junior grand 



championship in the barrows division o< 



the Chicago Fat Stock Show. 



DECEMBER, 1945 



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