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ILLINOIS Farm Supply Company de- 

 liveries of high protein feeds for live- 

 stock in 1946 are expected to almost 

 equal 1945 deliveries, according to J. 

 J. Lanter, feed division director. 



Lanter pointed out, however, that 

 the feed supplies for 1946 depend upon 

 the amount of protein meal made avail- 

 able by processing plants. 



"By forcing the return of scarce pro- 

 tein meal into normal retail channels," 

 he said, "the new regulations issued by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 on the sale of protein supplements 

 should help Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany obtain larger supplies for its pa- 

 trons." 



Restrictions on the use of protein 

 meal in the manufacture of mixed feeds 

 for livestock and poultry went into 

 effect Jan. 16. 



The order was issued when heavy 

 consumption by a record number of 

 poultry on farms and a near-record 

 volume of cattle feeding made heavy in- 

 roads on the nation's feed supply, creat- 

 ing protein shortages in many parts of 

 the country. 



The situation was further aggravated 

 by some processors going into the feed 

 manufacturing business, thereby depriv- 

 ing established feed manufacturers of 

 their normal sources of supply. 



The government order provides that 

 no manufacturer may use more high 

 protein meal in making mixed feeds 

 for livestock than the quantity so used 

 during the corresponding calendar 

 quarter of 1945. 



It also provides that no person may 

 use in the manufacture of poultry feed 

 a larger quantity of protein meal than 

 the following percentages of the quan- 

 tity so used in the corresponding month 

 of 1945: January and February — 100; 

 March — 95 ; April — 90, and all other 

 months of 1946 — 85 per cent. 



First picture of the 1946 lAA board of di- 

 rectors shows left to right: Ronald Holt. 

 Galva, ISth district; I. King Eaton, Ed- 

 wordsville. 22nd; Dan L. Clarke, New Ber- 

 lin. 21st; Otto Steffey. Stronghurst, 14th; 

 Charles Lauritzen, Reddick. 17th; K. T. 

 Smith. Greenfield. 20th; Chester McCord. 

 Newton, 23rd; C. E. Yale, Lee county. Farm 

 Advisers' Assn. representative for 1945; (in 

 back of McCord) F. E. Morris, Buffalo, vice- 



president* Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan, 

 president; Paul Mathias. secretary; Shirley 

 Manis. office secretary; C. J. Elliott Strea- 

 tor, 12th: Harvey Adair. Chgo. Hta« 1-1 1th 

 (back of Elliott): Lyman Bunting. Ellery, 

 24th; August G. Eggerding. Red Bud, 25th: 

 Homer Curtis. Stockton. 13th: R. V. McEee, 

 Varna, 16th: John T. Evans, Hoopeston. 

 18th, and Milton Warren, Mansfield, 19th. 



The dealer also is restricted in the 

 amount of protein meal he may sell 

 to a patron. The order provides that 

 no feeder may receive more than 

 one ton at a time and that no feeder 

 may receive more frequent deliveries 

 of protein meal in 1946 than he re- 

 ceived in 1945. 



Lanter explained that in his opinion 

 the government order would not correct 

 everything in the feed business but 

 that it would go a long way to alieviate 

 maldistribution in the industry. 



Another factor that is disrupting the 

 normal channels of trade is the prac- 

 tice of swapping for mutual advantage. 

 Some processors have been forced to 



offer protein meals in exchange for 

 beans in order to get the processing ma- 

 terials they need. In many instances, 

 those in possession of beans are de- 

 manding more meal than their actual 

 needs and using the surplus to trade 

 for other commodities. 



By following the 1946 farm produc- 

 tion goals set by the U. S. Department, 

 of Agriculture (explained on another 

 page of this issue of the Record) and 

 by using the available supply of sup- 

 plement where it will do the most good, 

 livestock feeders will be able to accom- 

 plish as much and without any more 

 hardship than was encountered during 

 the war years. 



JOHN R. SPENCER, DIRECTOR 

 OF SOIL IMPROVEMENT 

 DEPARTMENT, RESIGNS 



John R. Spencer, director of the Il- 

 linois Agricultural Association soil im- 

 provement department since 1937, has 

 resigned to take 

 employment with a 

 Lee county lime- 

 stone company. His 

 resignation takes 

 effect March 1. 



During Spencer's 

 nine years with the 

 lAA, the applica- 

 tion of limestone 

 and rock phosphate 

 o n Illinois farm 

 soils has increased 

 each year to the 

 largest amount of any state in the na- 

 tion — more than four million tons of 

 limestone and more than 250,000 tons 

 of rock phosphate annually. 



J. R. Spencer 



His work was chiefly concerned with 



quality supervision of agricultural lime- 

 stone produced by -the 150 quarries 

 serving Illinois farmers, and similar 

 work on rock phosphate shipments. 



Spencer was born in Geneseo in 

 Henry county and entered the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois college of agriculture 

 in 1915, leaving in 1918 for 16 months 

 service in World War 1. He finished 

 college in 1920 and worked in Ken- 

 tucky with agricultural extension serv- 

 ice and later as a county agent. 



In 1925 he returned to Illinois as 

 farm adviser in Wabash county and in 

 1928 he went to Rock Island county as 

 farm adviser where he served until he 

 came to the lAA in 1937. 



Spencer is married and lives with his 

 wife and two children, a boy and a 

 girl, at their home in Naperville, a 

 Chicago suburb. He formerly owned 

 and operated a 170-acre grain and stock 

 farm in Kendall county. 



FEBRUARY. 1946 



