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Top: Illinois, Missouri, end Aricansas stoclcinen cocic 

 on attentive ear during sessions of Producers' annual 

 meeting at St. Louis. Second: Pulaslci-Alexander 

 farmers get together during St. louis Producers' ban- 

 quet. L. to R.: C. A. Taalce, T. H. Aldrich, G. W. 

 Aidrich, Adam Reichert, Robert Reichert, August 

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

 Spaulding, Ralph Toake, and Leslie Broom, farm 

 adviser. 



Third: Group shown chatting together during Chi- 

 cago Producers meeting are, left to right: Harry 

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

 Kalb, Producers director; P. O. Wilson, manager. Na- 

 tional Livestock Producers Commission Association; 

 Theodore Funk, McLean, Chicago Producers president; 

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



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

 from left) discuss foot and mouth disease, left to 

 right: Dr. Don Van Houweling, lAA veterinarian; 

 F. E. Morris; Or. 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 diseose situa- 

 tion in Mexico for the state of Colorado. 



Livestock Co-ops 



HAVE 



RECORD 

 YEAR! 



ILLINOIS' two great metropolitan co- 

 operative li\estOLk mari^etini; out- 

 lets at Chiiauo and St. Louis both 

 reporteil the greatest dollar vol- 

 ume ot business in their 2f)-year 

 histories in 19-4"'. 



At their annual meetings last month, 

 the C^hiiago Producers ( ommission As- 

 sociation reported handling 1-4.821 car- 

 loads ot' lixestoik valued at S~0."97.- 

 30 1 and the Producers Livestock Mar- 

 keting Association of St. Louis reported 

 h.indling l~.ll^ carloads \alued at S68.- 

 3S1. lOtv 



Tiic St. Louis cooperati\e announced 

 that S52.'i()() would be refunded to it> 

 members from the sale ol their live- 

 stock in 19 I". The ( hicatro Producers 

 announccci savings tor the vear ot 

 > 10.^23. 10. 



The St. Louis meeting \oted to 

 change the name ol the organization 

 from the Producers Livevtock Com- 

 mission Association to the Producers 

 Li^estock Marketing Association. 



NLmacer H D. W'ritrht said the St. 



Louis association received the two larg- 

 est shipments during the year trom tlie 

 Illinois counties of Pike and Mont- 

 gomery to lead the tri-state area. Pike 

 shipped 639 cars and Montgomery. 511. 



Nlanager D. L. Swanson of the Chi- 

 cago Association reported that 19 i7 re- 

 ceipts came from 27 states. Illinois led 

 with 11,7^8 of the 11.821 cars received. 

 Swanson's figures siiowed that the Chi- 

 cago Producers handled more livestock 

 tiian the next three high commission 

 firms combined. 



Swanson asked tor continuance ot 

 the tine suj^port given the C hicago Pro- 

 ducers during 19i7. In doing so, he 

 s.iid. 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 wnuld be needed to 

 sustain \olumc in IViS because "at the 

 start of the year we had the smallest 

 number of cattle on teed 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 ^loines Register and Trib- 

 une who spoke on the recent trip he 

 made to Europe with a group of Iowa 

 tarmers. Russell said some European 

 countries could use better cattle strains. 

 He reported, however, that he saw some 

 ot 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 

 Liiropi.- lor some time although he said 

 there would be a marked improvement 

 in the supply in 19iS. 



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. Da\is, executive sec- 

 retary of the National Council ot 



I. A. A. RECORD 



