Six Counties Are Organizing 

 Co-op Livestock Marketing Yards 



As PART of a state-wide program for 

 livestock marketing, six counties are 

 setting up local concentration points 

 to handle livestock cooperatively. 



They will join the Illinois Livestock 

 Marketing Association and will use its 

 facilities to sell hogs directly to pack- 

 ers and ship other species of stock to 

 the larger terminal markets. 



Two of the six counties, Stephenson 

 and Henderson, are already organized 

 with yards at Freeport and Stronghurst 

 and expected to be handling livestock 

 sometime in February. 



The remaining four, Mercer, Henry, 

 Hancock and Rock Island, are faced 

 with the problem of building or leas- 

 ing yards but will start as soon as they 

 can acquire facilities to handle stock. 



These have been the first to ask the 

 lAA livestock marketing department 

 for help in setting up local yards and 

 concentration points, according to S. 

 F. Russell, director of livestock mar- 

 keting. 



Groups in other counties not now 

 serviced by the Illinois Livestock Mar- 

 keting Association have expressed in- 

 terest in starting local buying and 

 shipping points, Russell said. 



The six western counties that have 

 already started organizing are located 

 in the great livestock producing area 

 of the state, Russell said. Henry, for 

 one, produces about 5500 carloads an- 

 nually for market. 



The Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation will act as the sales agency 

 for these county units. The central 

 sales office of the Association is located 

 in Decatur and is under the manage- 

 ment of H. W. Trautmann. 



Six member county units are now 

 operating in East Central Illinois at 

 Bloomington, Champaign, Decatur, 

 Danville, Paris and Shelbyville. 



The new concentration points com- 

 ing into the Association will buy hogs 

 direct from their farmer-members. In 

 turn the Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association will sell the hogs to the 

 highest bidder. 



Farmers who have access to these local 

 concentration points will be able to 

 call by phone from their farm, get 

 current price quotations, and then de- 

 cide whether or not to sell. This 

 means the farmer will know before his 

 hogs leave the farm the price they will 

 bring. 



Other species of livestock will not 



be bought direct, at least for the pres- 

 ent, but will be shipped through local 

 yards and sold cooperatively on ter- 

 minal markets. 



These cooperatively owned concen- 

 tration points should give farmers more 

 control over their marketing. Mem- 

 bers will own their scales, office, and 

 in some cases, yards, and employ a 

 manager to weigh and grade their own 

 livestock. 



This plan will give farmers a choice 

 of selling either at home or on a ter- 

 minal market. In either case they can 

 use the facilities of their own market- 

 ing agency. 



John C. Moere 



JOHN MOORE RETIRES 

 AFTER 23 YEARS IN 

 ORGANIZATION WORK 



JOHN C. MOORE, southern Illinois 

 District organization director, an- 

 nounced his retirement on Jan. 31 after 

 having worked for 

 P'W'T"' the Illinois Agri- 



cultural Association 

 for more than 23 

 years. 



Since 1934 Moore 

 has been in charge 

 of organization for 

 the 3rd district, 

 comprising the 29 

 counties in southern 

 Illinois, and has 

 lived at Winchester in Scott county. 



He has become known through his 

 work to tens of thousands of Farm Bu- 

 reau families and few lAA employees 

 have been as popular or so well loved 

 by farmers in southern Illinois as good 

 natiired, fun-loving John Moore. His 

 love of a practical joke, both on himself 

 and his co-workers, is legendary. 



Although he has never been one to 

 labor his own importance, Moore will be 

 missed by those who have often drawn 

 on his store of practical wisdom in the 

 conduct of Farm Bureau business activi- 

 ties. 



Moore started as a solicitor for Farm 

 Bureau in 1923 and worked in many 

 counties during this early period which 

 he has often called the evangelistic days 

 of the movement. 



He was hired by J. C. Sailor, then di- 



rector of organization, shortly after he 

 had resigned as Scott county superintend- 

 ent of schools and had returned to his 

 80-acre farm near Winchester. 



During 1927 when the state was di- 

 vided into eight districts and full-time 

 resident managers were assigned to each 

 district, Moore was assigned the 4th in 

 western Illinois and remained there for 

 eight years. 



In 1934 the state was reapportioned 

 into three districts and Moore was chosen 

 as organizer in charge of the 3rd district, 

 the position he has held until his retire- 

 ment. During this time membership in 

 the 3rd district has increased from 10,- 

 700 to more than twice this figure, 25,- 

 882 in 1946. 



Even though he has been in charge of 

 the organizational work for 29 counties, 

 Moore has found time to bring manjr 

 into the Farm Bureau by approaching 

 them directly. He has probably sold 

 more individual memberships himself 

 than any district organizer in the state. 



After spending many days of his life 

 away from home, Moore is resigning to 

 look after his personal interests. He 

 owns a farm in Scott county and for 

 many years has been a farmer in his own 

 right. 



RURA 



SAVE BABY PIGS BY 

 SLANTING YOUR 

 FARROWING SHEDS 



HERE'S a new slant which may save 

 the lives of a number of your 

 spring pigs. Like many important dis- 

 coveries, it was the result of an acci- 

 dent. 



The accident was the collapse of a 

 foundation in a farrowing shed in Ken- 

 tucky which caused a drop on one side 

 of the floor. This slanting of the floor 

 appeared to be a life saver for the 

 little pigs because it kept them from 

 getting under the sow. 



On a slanting floor, a sow prefers 

 to lie with her back to the high side 

 while the unsteady baby pigs tend to 

 stay on the low side. It's that simple. 



One swine producer in Kentucky 

 last year raised an average of two more 

 pigs per litter on slanting floors than 

 he did on level floored pens. Other 

 farmers are reporting gains of from 

 one to four pigs per litter, according 

 to reports received by the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture from extension 

 workers. 



The department is passing the word 

 along to slope floors of farrowing pens 

 when possible. The approved amount 

 of slope is about an inch and a half 

 to the foot. In many cases one side 

 of the shed can be blocked up a few 

 inches to give the desired slope. 



LA. A. RECORD 



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