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Dana Crydar, Kendall county, president of Illinois Cooperative 

 Locker Association, presides at the association's annual meeting 

 in St. Louis. Seated Is Franic Gougler of the lAA marketing 



division. 



A $1,250,000 building program is 

 planned for this year by county 

 locker companies which have 

 grown in recent years by leaps and 

 bounds, Dana Cryder of Minooka, 

 President of the Illinois Cooperative 

 ocker Association, told members at 

 their annual meeting in St. Louis. 



The Illinois Cooperative Locker Asso- 

 ciation is associated with the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association and held its an- 

 nual meeting during the lAA convention 

 in St. Louis. 



Illinois farmers already own and op- 

 erate 112 cooperative frozen food locker 

 plants with a capacity of 50,000 lockers, 

 Cryder said, and this should be increased 

 to 65,000 by next year. 



In addition to the locker plants 17 

 slaughter plants have been built at a cost 

 averaging about $40,000 or more each 

 and are used to butcher stock going into 

 locker plants. 



Discussing developments for next year 

 Cryder said several counties, among them 

 DeKalb and McLean, were considering 

 building slaughter-processing plants sim- 

 ilar to the new plant at Carlinville. 



The Carlinville slaughter-processing 

 plant is in effect a small packing plant 

 serving an entire county. Completed re- 

 cently at a cost of $100,000, it is con- 

 sidered a model plant of its kind. 



Cryder said the plant is equipped to 

 take a live hog from a farmer's feedlot 

 by truck and return the carcass processed 

 as ham or bacon — wrapped, labeled and 

 frozen — to the farmer's local locker 

 plant. 



Throughout the state locker plants 

 averaged a net saving of $2.67 for each 

 locker, Cryder said, with total revenue 

 averaging $25.66 per locker. 



The value of lockers to the health of 

 Illinois farmers Cryder believes, cannot 

 be measured in dollars and cents. "We 

 have too many people suffering from 

 preventable malnutrition," he said. "This 



was brought to light during the war by 

 the draft rejection of a high percentage 

 of farm boys. We have a unique chance 

 to serve our members and the general 

 public by stressing human nutrition." 



Turning to the business of operating 

 locker plants, Cryder said: "Most of us 

 have had our experience in operating 

 farms. We haven't had a chance to learn 

 the courtesies needed in operating a busi- 

 ness. 



"If we succeed in this cooperative lock- 

 er venture, it is my firm conviction we 

 learn more and more how to win and 

 maintain a satisfactory relationship with 

 our patrons. We must practice business 

 principles." 



Through equipment and supply sales 

 to member companies, membership dues, 

 and other sources the state office was 

 able to pass back to member companies 

 patronage refunds of $10,150.85. 



Serum Co-op To Sell Biologies 



BIOLOGICS and pharmaceuticals for 

 farm animals will be handled for 

 the first time next year by the Il- 

 linois Farm Bureau Serum Asso- 

 ciation. This was announced at 

 their annual meeting held during 

 the lAA annual convention in St. Louis. 

 In his address to members. President 

 Russell McKee of Varna said the co- 



Russell V. McKee (above) of Marshall- 

 Putnam county, president of the Farm 

 Bureau Serum Association, mokes his annual 

 report at the annual meeting of the serum 

 association. 



operative expects to sell at least 24 com- 

 monly used drugs and biologies and a 

 rather complete line of instruments. 



These will be in addition to the hog 

 cholera serum and virus which the asso- 

 ciation has handled for a number of 

 years. New products include black leg 

 bacterin, anti-swine erysipelas serum, and 

 anti-hemorrhagic septicemia serum and 

 bacterin. 



In announcing the new program Mc- 

 Kee said that farmers spend millions each 

 year on remedies that are extremely lim- 

 ited in value. "In addition to wasting 

 money," McKee said, "the use of worth- 

 less remedies gives farmers a false sense 

 of security. 



"It is the plan of your association," he 

 said, "to handle only those reliable prod- 

 ucts whose beneficial effects have been 

 scientifically proven in the treatment of 

 animals." 



The serum association will also stress 

 preventive disease control. "We should 

 always remember that it is pnuch cheaper 

 to prevent disease than to try to cure 

 sick animals," McKee said. 



To implement this enlarged program 

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