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Three lAA Men Get 

 New Assignments; 

 Hire Field Editor 



NKW assigiiineiUs for three men are 

 the results of recent clianges in the 

 staff of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation and its associated companies. 

 In addition, the lAA publicity depart- 

 ment has announced it has hired a new 

 fuld editor for The RECORD. 



J. L. Pidcock, manager of Illinois 

 Cooperative Locker Service, has been 

 named director of the newly-created de- 

 partment of locker service. 



Sam F. Russell. lAA director of live- 

 stock marketing, has taken over the 

 additional duty of managing the Illinois 

 Farm Rureau Serum Association, an 

 lAA affiliated company. 



New director of grain marketing is 

 ("ecil F. Musser. who formerly managed 

 the Scrum Association. 



Russell Van Cleve. 27. Yorkville. lias 

 been added to the I.A.-\ staff as publicity 

 assistant and field editor of The REC- 

 ORD. 



Pidcock will continue as manager of 

 the Ix)cker Company but will spend 

 about two-thirds of his time on bis new- 

 duties. 



He started work as bead of the new 

 department on Oct. 1. just two years 

 after being employed as manager of the 

 Locker Company, an associated com- 

 pany of the IA.4. 



Pidcock came to tbe Locker Com|>aiiy 

 post from the Indiana F"arm Rureau Co- 

 operative Association. He was gradu- 

 ated from the University of Kentucky 

 and served as farm adviser in that state. 



Russell, a native of Wvoming. has 

 been with the I.\.\ since December 

 1937, when he took over as head of the 

 livestock marketing department. For 

 10 vears before that, he was farm ad- 

 viser in Adams county. 



He attended the college of agriculture 

 at Missouri University and worked as 

 a county agent in the "show me" state. 



Musser started to work for the lAA 

 in Oct., 19.'^9, as a field man and six 

 years later became manager of the 

 Locker Company. He previously was 

 employed as assistant manager of the 

 Logan-Mason County Service Company 

 and as Logan county organization di- 

 rector. 



Van Cleve. who was gra<Iuated from 

 (lie Northwestern L'niversity school of 

 journalism in 191-7. has had experience 

 in both the newspaper and publicity 

 fields. 



He was employed by the national 

 public relations division of the Ameri- 

 can Legion for one year. He came to 



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R. Van Cleve 



Sam Russell 



J. L. Pidcock 



Cecil Musser 



the L\A after spending a year as sports 

 editor and reporter for the Sikeston. 

 Mo.. Daily Standard. 



His father. Hugh Van Cleve, is a 

 member of the Kendall County Farm 

 Bureau. Van Cleve grew up on his 

 father's farm near Yorkville. 



lie ailiridiil (lie L tiiversily of Illinois 

 for three and one-half years but left 

 there before being graduated to enter 

 the air forces. He served as a (mIoI for 

 three years diiriim the rtvent warr. 



He is married and the father of one 

 M)Ti. Roger. 2. 



The OUTLOOK for '50 



as seen by Government Economists 



NEXT SPRING'S pig crop will be 

 larger than the 1919 spring crop 

 by live per cent or possibly 

 more, in the viewpoint of the Bu- 

 reau of Agricultural Economics. 

 1 lie logic of this forecast is found in 

 ample supplies of corn and the hog-corn 

 ratio this fall. 



RAE's forecast was outlined last 

 month by Harold F. Breimyer, agricul- 

 tural economic statistician, at an out- 

 look conference iti \^'ashington. Here 

 are some points made by Breimyer: 



"The seasonal decline in hog prices 

 now imder way may be a little more 

 than the long-time average of lo per 

 cent, but it may not be as great as would 

 usually lie expected from the 15 per 

 cent increase in last spring's pig crop. 

 . . . Early and lighweight marketings 

 and the manner in which cold storage 

 holdings have been handled have tended 

 to cushion the price decline for hogs. 

 "Usual price relations would indicate 

 that a 10 per cent larger output of pork 

 through miuh of 19,50 would result in, 

 a somewhat greater precentage drop in 

 prices of hogs. . . . The hog-corn ratio 

 is expected to be above average during 

 a large part of the year. . . . .Slaughter 

 weights of hogs have been lighter than 

 a year ago and are expected to continue 

 lighter by a few pounds next year. 

 More Beef Foreseen 

 '"During 1919. cattle numbers are 

 probably being increased by about one 

 million. . . . Cows and calves in par- 

 ticular are being held back and the in- 

 crease in numbers promises more beef 



in the future, .\bout as much beef will 

 be i)roduccd next year as in 1919 and a 

 larger part than usual will again be of 

 the better quality produced frorn grain- 

 fed cattle. , 



"Since supplies of beef are expected 

 to be about the same, the vear-avera^e 

 prices of beef and cattle in \')7i(\ are not 

 likely to be greatly different in 1919. 

 ... A small drop i.s likely l)ecause of 

 the larger supply of pork and a possible 

 slow decline in incomes of consumers. 

 Sheep and Wool 



'■Sheepmen may rebuild their herds 

 somewlut mxt year. .\s a result, 

 slaughter may be even ^mailer than this 

 yearan^ lambs are likely to remain high 

 in comparison w ith jirices of other meat 

 animals. . . . Prices of wool received 

 by producers as well as market prices 

 are likely to average somewhat lower 

 in 1950 than this year." 



Feed Outlook 



W ith another big fce.l -ujiplv avail- 

 able, the Bureau of .Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics anticipates that farmers will 

 continue feeding their livestock fairly 

 liberally during the coming year even 

 though livestock -feed price ratios may 

 not be quite so favorable as during the 

 191.'!- 10 season. 



This was pointed out by Malcolm 

 Clough of the Buriau of .■\gricultural 

 Economics. Said Cloush: 



"The processing of feed grains into 



food and industrial [irodurts is expected 



to continue somewhere near the 1918-1.9 



level, but exports may l>e a little small- 



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DECEMBER, 1949 



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