Map shows network of cooperative market- 

 ing points in Illinois. Lines radiate from 

 ftate sales office of Illinois Livestock Mar- 

 keting Association at Decatur, and Na- 

 tional Livestock Producers' Association of- 

 fice in Chicago. Circles show where coun- 

 ty buying points affiliated with Illinois 

 Livestock ore operating. Stars show Pro- 

 ducer markets. Triangles indicate county 

 points of Illinois Livestock organized but 

 not yet buying. 



This is the new $30,000 livestock marketing yards at Princeton in Bureau county. 



Feeders For Sale! 



New Farm Bureau Yards At 



Princeton Are First To Handle Cattle On 



A 'See Before You Buy' Basis 



THE Bureau County Livestock Mar- 

 keting Association, buying hogs at 

 its fine new yards at Princeton, is 

 the 1 7th county member to affiliate 

 with the fast-growing statewide 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Association. 

 Bureau county's marketing association 

 started buying hogs in June. They moved 

 into their new quarters the last week in 

 September. 



The new building which houses the 

 yards is one of the finest of its kind. It 

 is made of concrete block construction 

 and was built at a cost of 520,000. 



Work With Producers 



Bure.iu is the first county set-up to 

 handle feeder steers. This it is doing 

 through an agreement with the Chicago 

 Producers Commission Association. 



Although their feeder business is new, 

 the livestock yards have had four success- 

 ful months of buying hogs. Their hog 

 business has been running just under 

 .^100,000 a month during the slack hog 

 marketing se.ison. 



At this Princeton outlet, the Chicago 

 Producers plan to handle calves, yearling 

 heifers and steers, and two year old 

 steers. They are also selling feeders at 

 Malta and Montgomery. 



The feeder cattle business has been 

 good, even though they got started at the 



These top market hogs, 200-poUnd Spotted 

 Poland Chinas, were sent to market through 

 Princeton co-op by Bob Linden, center. At 

 right is Darrel Newmister, manager, and 

 at left is Frank Anderson, farmer. 



end of the feeder season, as Leo Richard- 

 son, local manager for the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers, explained. 



These first cars of feeders were 600- 

 900 pound yearlings, good and mediums, 

 that came from Montana, Colorado, Wyo- 

 ming, Texas, and northern New Mexico. 



Darrel Newmister, manager of the 

 yards and in charge of buying hogs, said 

 they hoped to buy from 30,000 to 50,000 

 hogs a year. This large volume is pos- 

 sible in Bureau county, he explained, be- 

 cause it is one of the largest hog produc- 

 ing counties in the nation. 



Newmister comes from McLean county 

 where he worked for the Producers stock 

 yards in Bloomington. He was reared on 

 a McLean county farm. 



Hogs have been sent to the Princeton 

 yards from farms near a number of neigh- 

 boring towns, Newmister said. He has 

 had shipments from Wyanet, Sheffield, 

 Neponset, Manlius, Buda, Tiskilwa, 

 Ohio, Walnut, La Moille, Arlington. 

 Spring Valley, Bureau, and Mendota. 



Raise Prices 



Several farmers estimated that the yards 

 have raised the price on hogs substan- 

 tially since they st.irted buying. 



The Producers agency, a cooperative 

 that operates on the Chicago market, is 

 handling the feeders at Princeton as a 

 service to local feeders. 



Farmers there say that the advantages 

 to them are obvious. Cattlemen can see 

 the feeders before they buy, they can buy 

 in less than carload lots, and will share 

 in any savings from the operation. 



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