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Top: IlllnoU, Mlueuri, and Arkanios stockman cock 

 on ottontlva ear during lesslon* of Producer*' annual 

 meeting at St. LeuU. Secendi Pulaikl-Alexandor 

 farmers get together during St. Louis Producers' ban- 

 quet. L. to R.: C. A. Taake, T. H. Aldrlch, 6. W. 

 Aldrlch, Adam Reichert, Robert Relchert, August 

 Reichert, W. E. Parker, J. P. Redman, John W. 

 Spaulding, Ralph Taake, and Leslie Broom, farm 

 adviser. 



Third: Group shown chatting together during Chi- 

 cago Producers meeting ore, left to right: Harry 

 Russell, College of Agriculture; Carl M. Johnson, Do- 

 Kaib, Producers director; P. O. WHson, manager. Na- 

 tional Livestock Producers Commission Association; 

 Theodore Funk, McLean, Chicago Producers president; 

 and lAA Vice President F. E. Morris, Sonogmon. 



Bottom: An lAA group hears Or. M. J. Warner (third 

 from left) discuss foot and mouth disease. Left to 

 right: Dr. Den Van Houweling, lAA veterinarian; 

 F. E. Morris; Dr. Warner; and lAA Directors Otto Stef- 

 fey and R. V. McKee. Dr. Warner, a veterinarian. 

 Is a member of the Colorado Farm Bureau board and 

 recently surveyed the foot and mouth disease situa- 

 tion in Mexico for the state of Colorado. 



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Livestock Co-ops 



HAVE 



RECORD 

 YEAR! 



ILLINOIS' two great metropolitan co- 

 operative livestock marketing out- 

 lets at Chicago and St. Louis both 

 reported the greatest dollar vol- 

 ume of business in their 26-year 

 histories in 1947. 



At their annual meetings last month, 

 the Chicago Producers Commission As- 

 sociation reported handling 14,821 car- 

 loads of livestock valued at $70,797,- 

 304 and the Producers Livestock Mar- 

 keting Association of St. Louis reported 

 handling 17,415 carloads valued at $68,- 

 381,406. 



The St. Louis cooperative announced 

 that $52,500 would be refunded to its 

 members from the sale of their live- 

 stock in 1947. The Chicago Producers 

 announced savings for the year of 

 $40,323.40. 



The St. Louis meeting voted to 

 change the name of the organization 

 from the Producers Livestock Com- 

 mission Association to the Producers 

 Livestock Marketing Association. 



Manager H. D. Wright said the St. 



Louis association received the two larg- 

 est shipments during the year from the 

 Illinois counties of Pike and Mont- 

 gomery to lead the tri-state area. Pike 

 shipped 639 cars and Montgomery, 511. 



Manager D. L. Swanson of the Chi- 

 cago Association reported that 1947 re- 

 ceipts came from 27 states. Illinois led 

 with 11,758 of the 14,821 cars received. 

 Swanson's figures showed that the Chi- 

 cago Producers handled more livestock 

 than the next three high commission 

 firms combined. 



Swanson asked for continuance of 

 the fine support given the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers during 1947. In doing so, he 

 said, you will benefit not only your 

 neighbors, but yourself as well, and you 

 will get a great deal of personal satis- 

 faction from such efforts. Swanson 

 said more support would be needed to 

 sustain volume in 1948 because "at the 

 start of the year we had the sipallest 

 number of cattle on feed in eight years, 

 and the smallest number of sheep and 

 lambs in 20 years." 



Principal speaker at the St. Louis 

 meeting was J. S. Russell, farm editor 

 of the Des Moines Register and Trib- 

 une who spoke on the recent trip he 

 made to Europe with a group of Iowa 

 farmers. Russell said some European 

 countries could use better cattle strains. 

 He reported, however, that he saw some 

 of the finest herds of Ayrshires and 

 Shorthorns in Scotland that he had 

 ever seen. 



Russell said he believed lack of fer- 

 tilizer, seeds, machinery, and incentives 

 would make for shortage of food in 

 Europe for some time although he said 

 there would be a marked improvement 

 in the supply in 1948. 



An Illinois corn and hog farmer, 

 Roy Burrus, Arenzville, is president of 

 the St. Louis co-op. Arthur Weber of 

 Sparta was reelected to the board of 

 direcors. 



Speaking on "What's Ahead for Ag- 

 riculture," at the Chicago Producers 

 meeting, John H. Davis, executive sec- 

 retary of the National Council of 



L A. A. RECORD 



