HEAVYWEIGHTS 



TOP MARKET AT 



MACON CO-OP 



This is one of the 64 finely-formed barrows which averaged a 



profitable $25 per cwt., when sold through the Illinois LIvestocic 



Marketing Association by Dean Samuels of DeWitt county. 



QjnJtsAnaJtiomd wiu usher 



IN WINTER SHOW SEASON 



AMERICA'S largest live stock show, 

 the International Live Stock Ex- 

 position and Horse Show, will cele- 

 brate its 48th anniversary Nov. 29 

 through Dec. 6. 



It will be held in the International 

 Amphitheatre at the Chicago Stock 

 Yards. 



This huge exposition annually at- 

 tracts a showing of between 12,000 and 

 14,000 animals, the finest specimens of 

 the meat-making breeds of live stock, 

 from all parts of the United States and 

 Canada. 



An attendance in excess of 400,000 is 

 anticipated this year, officials of the 

 show report. 



Chief entertainment feature of the 

 Exposition are the famous International 

 Horse Shows, which will take place 

 daily through the 8-day run of the 

 show. 



The 25th anniversary of the Inter- 

 national Grain and Hay Show will take 

 place this year in connection with the 

 live stock exposition. It is the largest 

 competitive farm crops competition in 

 the world. 



The 26th annual 4-H Club Congress 

 will be held in Chicago coincident with 

 the International. 



The opening week-end will feature 

 Junior activities at the International. 

 The Junior Live Stock Judging contest 

 will take place as a pre-opening event 



on Friday, Nov. 28; and the Junior Live 

 Stock Feeding Contest, in which boys 

 and girls will show beeves, lambs, and 

 hogs of their own raising, will be on 

 all day Saturday, Nov. 29. Both of 

 these contests are open to 4-H and 

 vocational agricultural club members. 

 The Collegiate Live Stock Judging con- 

 test will also be held on Saturday, Nov. 

 29. 



The open steer classes will be judged 

 on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 1 and 

 2, of the International week, and se- 

 lection of the grand champion steer — 

 high-light winner of the week — is 

 set for 2 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 2. 



All of the steer classes at this year's 

 Exposition will be judgea by Richard 

 S. deQuincey, a noted Hereford and 

 Shorthorn breeder of Bodenham, Here- 

 ford, England. 



HERE'S a hog story to top the best 

 lish story you've heard this sea- 

 son. And Dean Samuels of De 

 Witt county can prove it's true. 

 Samuels breeds good hogs and 

 he often sells them when they weigh 

 hea\7. But not like the 500 pound 

 whoppers pictured here. 



The day of the big hog has passed 

 but here is a case where a shrewd hog- 

 man made money, and lots of it, holding 

 his heavies off the market and putting 

 even more gain on them. 



He first offered these Chester White 

 barrows for sale around the first of 

 September to the Macon County Market- 

 ing Association. They offered him $20 

 a hundre<f, top figure for the day's mar- 

 ket on heavy hogs. 



Samuels said he guessed he would 

 wait 4 while. He was sure heavy hogs 

 would advance sharply. His hunch paid 

 off. He went back two weeks later. 

 The local co-op yards offered him a $25 

 bid on Sept. 17. 



Samuels delivered the hogs. He made 

 $1592.50 by waiting just two weeks. 

 And he took home a check for $7962.50 

 for only 64 hogs, the price 10 years ago 

 of a good 80-acre farm. 



The hog shipment was made up of 

 64 uniform Chester White barrows, 

 weighing a total of 21,850 pounds or 

 an average of 497.6 pounds. They were 

 purchased by Wilson & Company and 

 dressed out well in the packing plant. 



Samuels lives near Clinton and is a 

 good Farm Bureau member in DeWitt 

 county. 



Admiring Dean Sam- 

 uels' consignment of 

 barrows mariceted 

 through the Illinois 

 LIvestocic Marlceting 

 Association are, left 

 to right: Gene Kerr, 

 manager, Scott Coun- 

 ty Marlceting Associa- 

 tion, Bluffs; id Ash- 

 ton, manager, Macon 

 County Marketing As- 

 sociation, Decatur; 

 and Dorsey Hand- 

 riclcs, yard man at 

 the Decatur yards. 



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