New livestock Unit Elects 



Illinois Livestock Producers Association 

 Elects Officers, Adopts By-Laiis At 

 Organization Meeting 



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Scoff Irwin 



IA'l l.> 1 slcp in ilii.' plan to dc\xloj^ 

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 I ii\t.Ai(Kk inaikcinii; pri)i;r.im tor II- 

 J linoi>. tanners i..i-i iKcn tlic- election 

 of oltKcrs and .ulopiion ut by-laws tor 

 llii. new Illinois 

 I.ncstOik i'roiliKers' 

 AssOi i.ition. 



I his is the new 

 oi L;ani/ation that li.is 

 been .set up to ( 1 ) 

 strengthen present 

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where needed or 

 where desirable and 

 ( ^ ) or^'anize selling on in cftieient basis, 

 jiisi so you won't ^et contused, this 

 new Producers' Association is a ditterc-nt 

 organization than the Illinois Livestock 

 Marketini; Association which lias its head- 

 quarters at Decatur. The latter organiza- 

 tion IS one ot the aijencies cCX)peratini; 

 witii the Producers' Association in im- 

 pro\ ini: a statewide marketing proyram. 



Other .lutncies cooperatini; and their 

 representati\es on the F^roducers' Asso i- 

 atioii board are the ( hicayo Producers' 

 (oinmission Association. ( arl M. |ohn- 

 .son. IXKalb; Peoria Producers' Com- 

 mission Association. M. V . Holmes. 

 Peoria; Sprin^'tield Producers' Livestock 

 C ommission Company. Scott Irwin. San- 

 ^.imon; Illinois Livestock Marketing As- 

 sociation. Ray Hint;. Adams; Hushiull 

 Producers Commission C omp.mv. Henry 

 I.. ( oiiibs. McDonoiii;h. Otto Stel'i'ev. 



Officers and nyembers of the executive 

 committee of fhe Illinois livestock Pro- 

 ducers Association following a recent or- 

 ganization meeting are: front row, left to 

 right; Treasurer Otto $te0ey, Henderson 

 county; Secretory Roy Ihrig, Adams; Presi- 

 dent Carl M. Johnson, DeKalb; Vice-Presi- 

 dent Robert Armstrong, Warren, and i. £. 

 Mathers, Mason. 



Henderson couiit\. is the \ .\.\ reiTcseiita- 

 li\e on the Producers' .Association board 

 Irwin was named siiue the tirst meetini; 

 and was not in the picture in the March 

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Liyht other board members are elected 

 liom the eight districts in which tlie state 

 is divided tor representation purposes. 

 District 7 is without a representative as 

 the result ot the recent death ot J. P. Red- 

 man, Alexander county. Otiier district 

 representatives are: dis. 1, William Tem- 

 ple, I.aSalle; dis. 2, I'rank P. Norrish. 

 NX'hiteside; dis. .i, Robert Armstrong, 

 Warren; dis. (. L, L. Mathers, Mason; 

 dis. "i, Lester L. Martin, Morgan; dis. 

 (), C lark n. Wise, Ch.impaign, and dis. 

 S, Marion A. I"ry, Shelby. 



Llected otticers at the organization 

 meeting were: Johnson, president; Arm- 

 strong, vice-president; Ray Ihrig. secre- 

 tary, and Otto Steftey, treasurer. W. |. 

 Neverman was named assistant treasurer 

 and C;. C C hapelle, comptroller. Math- 

 ers was named a member of the execu- 

 tive committee. 



The executive committee was scheduled 

 to meet May IH to work on three jobs: 

 to work out contract forms between the 

 Producers' Association and the five co- 

 operating marketing .igencies; to figure 

 out car tees and to seek a manager. The 

 entire board was scheduled to meet May 



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C)nc of the first projects expected to 

 be started by the Producers' Association 

 is a study of hog marketing in Illinois. 

 This study will be used as a basis lor 

 develojiing elticient and economical hog 

 marketing on a st.itewide setup that will 

 be of the greatest benelit to the livestock 

 I'roclucer. 



lor the first three months of I<)|';, 

 there were 9,69.^ carloads of livestock 

 marketed cooperatively from Illinois 

 counties, compared with M.sii t,ir the 

 s.inie period in !•' IS. 



This is Illinois farm Supply's new ferllllxer 

 plant at Cast SI. Louis, III., which recently 

 started the production of plant food for 

 distribution through your focal service com- 

 pany. Illinois Farm Supply is an afflliatm 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Association, 



Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company's Fertilizer 

 Plant Is Operating 



ILLINOIS I'arm Supply C^ompany's new 

 fertilizer plant at Hast St. Louis, 111., 



is now in operation and shipping plant 

 food to member company distributors, 

 according to ]. J. Lanter, director of pro- 

 curement. 



The plant commenced full-scale opera- 

 tions several days ago in the production 

 of superphosphate and the recommended 

 grades of higher analysis mixed fertiliz- 

 ers. The new plant is under the man- 

 agement of Kenneth Wohlford. The 

 first truckload of 18 tons of .S- 1 2-1 2 

 Crow Crop fertilizer was shipped to the 

 Montgomery Service Company at Hills- 

 lx)ro. 



Production for several weeks, said 

 Lanter, was to be confined to this one 

 grade. By this a larger volume was 

 made available to Illinois farmers in the 

 short period before corn planting time. 

 It is expected that the plant will be able 

 to b.ig, load and ship about 1^0 tons 

 daily, or approximately 2,>()0 tons of 

 .VI 2- 12 fertilizer this spring. 



When lully completed and in operation 

 the plant will have an annual production 

 of U), ()()() tons of mixed fertilizers and 

 20, ()()() tons of superphosphate. 



This new plant is but a part of tiie 

 complete plant tood program of Illinois 

 farm Supply Company. Through the 

 member company distributors Illinois 

 farmers are now receiving over IT'S, ()()() 

 tons of rock phosphate, potash, triple 

 superphosphate ancl ammonium nitrate 

 per year. These straight carriers of plant 

 foods are in additin to the 10,000 tons of 

 mixed fertilizers and superphosphate dis- 

 tributed. 



by having their own fertilizer plant, 

 llhiiois I'arm Bureau member patrons 



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