This Is fhe Dacotur warahous* racantly fakan evar hy Produ€»rt' Saad Company for usa by Ub unall ssads division. 



PRODUCERS' Seed Company, an 

 associated company of the Illinoie 

 Agricultural Association, has bought 

 a modern plant in Decatur as a central 

 warehouse for distribution of small 

 seeds to serve the needs of Illinois 

 Farm Bureau members. 



Additional distribution points for 

 small seeds will be at the company's 

 plants at Piper City in Ford county. 

 Polo in Ogle county, and Fairbury in 

 Livingston county. 



Purchase of the central plant at De- 

 catur means that Farm Bureau's small 

 seed program, long sought by the mem- 

 bership, will soon be in operation. It 

 is expected that Producers' Seed will be 

 ready to distribute small seed processed 

 in its own plant by December. The 

 Producers' will try to accommodate 

 member companies this fall by locating 

 possible seed sources in case such as- 

 sistance is needed. 



Distributors in this statewide small 

 seed program will be Farm Bureau- 

 type cooperatives operating in the coun- 

 ty and designated by the County Farm 

 Bureau board of directors. 



The small seeds program will require 

 a capital fund of $275,000 to be raised 

 through the sale of six per cent cumula- 

 tive first preferred stock, par value $10, 

 of the Producers' Seed Company. 



The plant purchased at Decatur was 

 completed by the Monsanto Chemical 

 Company in July of 1948. Changes in 

 the manufacturing field made the plant 

 available for sale. 



Heading up the Producers' small seed 

 program is one of the outstanding spe- 

 cialists in the field. He is Evart Vander 

 Meulen, a native of Michigan who es- 

 tablished a fine record of research work 

 on the staff of Michigan State College 

 from which he was graduated in 1939 

 and where he received his master's de- 

 gree in 1943. 



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In 1944, Vander Meulen was em- 

 ployed by the Corneli Seed Company, 

 St. Louis. He had charge of establish- 

 ing corn and vegetable growing stations 

 in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and 

 later was transferred to the field seed 

 department in charge of buying crop 

 seeds at the source of production. He 



also had charge of the field seed re- 

 search department. 



Vander Meulen joined the Producers' 

 staff on May 1, 1949. He already has 

 established contacts in the producing 

 areas for the purchase of seed that has 

 to be imported into the state. 



What 

 About 



HAT will cattle and hog prices 

 be in 1950? Will the general 

 economic situation be favorable 

 for farmers? Will the sources of feed- 

 er cattle be plentiful? Will the prices 

 of feeder stock be right? How are 

 available feed supplies shaping up? 



These and a host of other questions 

 will be answered during the annual 

 Feed and Livestock Outlook meetings 

 being held throughout the state this 

 month. 



Speakers will include men connected 

 with the principal livestock marketing 

 agencies and agricultural economists 

 and livestock men from the University 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture. Pro- 

 grams have been arranged by the above 

 in cooperation with the livestock mar- 

 keting departn^ent of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association and county farm 

 advisers. 



All livestock farmers are invited to 

 attend. A general discussion period 

 will follow each meeting and farmers 



will be encouraged to ask questions re- 

 lating to the livestock industry. 



Following are the dates and places 

 of outlook meetings scheduled for Sep- 

 tember : 



(1) Kane, Washington, McHenry, 

 Clay. 



(2) DeKalb, St. Clair, DuPage, Ef- 

 fingham. 



(6) Stark, Scotl. Henderson. 



(7) Peoria, Morgan. Mercer. 



(8) McLean, Cass, \^'arren, Schuyler, 

 Kankakee. 



(9) Fulton, Menard, Sangamon, 

 Brown, Iroquois. 



(12) Tazewell, Winnebago. 



(13) Mfison, Stephenson. 



(14) Logan, Jo Daviess, Jersey. Wa- 

 bash. 



(15) Knox, Carroll. Bond, Pike, White. 



(16) Woodford, Ogle, Montgomery, 

 Adams, Lawrence. 



(19) Crawford, Macoupin. Lee. 



(20) Jasper, Christian, Whiteside. 



(21) Moultrie, Shelby, Rock liland. 



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